LTE A1-C2 PP1 - Exam Paper
LTE A1-C2 PP1 - Exam Paper
LTE A1-C2 PP1 - Exam Paper
A1-C2 examination
Listening & Reading
Practice Paper 1
Time allowed:
- Reading 70 minutes
Instructions to Candidates
Listening Part 1
You will hear some sentences. You will hear each sentence twice. Choose the correct answers.
1.
a) b) c)
2.
a) b) c)
3.
a) b) c)
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4.
a) b) c)
5.
a) b) c)
6.
a) b) c)
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7.
a) b) c)
8.
a) b) c)
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Listening Part 2a
You will hear some sentences. You will hear each sentence twice. Choose the best reply to each
sentence.
1. a) I like it a lot.
b) I don’t think so.
c) He’s very kind.
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Listening Part 2b
You will hear some short conversations. You will hear each conversation twice. Choose the correct
answer to complete each conversation.
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Listening Part 3
You will hear some short conversations. You will hear each conversation twice. Choose the correct
answers for each conversation.
Conversation 1
Conversation 2
4. What do the man and woman decide about the staff competition?
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Conversation 3
You hear a senior manager talking to a manager called Linda about a training day.
Conversation 4
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Conversation 5
10. The woman persuades the man that the new scheme
Conversation 6
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Listening Part 4
You will hear the recordings twice. Choose the correct answers.
You will hear an interview with a man called Simon Vince who works as a pizza maker.
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You will hear two workers in a company talking about the different buildings they now work
in.
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You will hear part of a talk by Patsy Cooper, who founded a business supplying contact lenses.
11. Patsy says that in the early stages of developing her business, she
15. How does Patsy feel about her company’s digital presence?
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Reading Part 1
Read the texts. Choose the correct answer for each question.
1.
Andrew
Well done for getting that new
customer!
Sharon
2.
Sam
We’re having lunch in the garden,
as the weather is so nice. Come and
find us!
Lynn
3.
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4.
5.
Edward
I’ve left your signed documents with
Katie. I didn’t like to leave them on
your desk.
Mary
6.
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7.
Mike
Thanks,
Lucy
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Reading Part 2a
Read the text. Choose the correct answers to complete the text.
Prius Shoes
Prius is a German company that has shoe shops in big cities in several European countries. (1) ………
of their customers are teenagers and young adults. The assistants are usually young as well. Prius
shops are painted in (2) ……… colours and have lots of space. Their shoes, boots and trainers are
quite expensive – they sell a lot of the top brands. But they have their own brand of shoes
(3) ……… , and often have special offers.
Prius always have their shops in city centres. They play quite loud music and always (4) ……… their
doors open to make people feel they want to go inside. They also have comfortable sofas for
customers waiting to (5) ……… shoes on.
1. a) Much
b) Any
c) Most
2. a) bright
b) fit
c) sweet
3. a) else
b) too
c) so
4. a) keep
b) stay
c) take
5. a) turn
b) get
c) try
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Reading Part 2b
Read the text. Choose the correct answers to complete the text.
Sarah Lewington is a careers advisor who works in various schools in her local area. Mostly she sees
students one-to-one for short interviews. In these, she aims to chat to students of different ages
about their possible career (1) ……… and to give them useful information to help them (2) ………
their decisions about their future. She needs to know what school subjects the students enjoy,
whether they have any strong ideas about possible careers and what they understand about the
jobs they do (3) ……… an interest in. She also likes to (4) ……… out about the students’
personalities and what they enjoy doing outside the classroom. With older students, she might help
them prepare CVs or fill in application (5) ……… for jobs.
1. a) ways
b) options
c) varieties
2. a) come
b) make
c) set
3. a) show
b) become
c) are
4. a) carry
b) get
c) find
5. a) contracts
b) forms
c) certificates
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Reading Part 2c
Read the text. Choose the correct answers to complete the text.
Open plan offices are promoted as improving collaboration and group collective intelligence. In a
workplace with no physical barriers, no closed-off individual spaces, everyone thinks collaboratively
and knowledge (1) ……… . Also, everyone intermingles regardless of seniority, so that everyone
feels valued and respected. (2) ……… , that’s the theory.
The reality, however, according to a recent report, is high (3) ……… of noise and distraction,
difficulties in concentrating, and reduced productivity and job satisfaction. Ironically, a system
designed to produce a friendly, democratic environment, actually creates far fewer face-to-face
interactions and private conversations.
What appears to happen is that employees instinctively seek strategies to (4) ……… their privacy.
So they tune out with headphones, and use email to contact others rather than risk a face-to-face
interaction in front of a large audience. The (5) ……… result is an office with a deathly silence!
1. a) surrounds
b) publicises
c) spreads
2. a) As such
b) At least
c) Even so
3. a) totals
b) levels
c) degrees
4. a) preserve
b) screen
c) store
5. a) eventual
b) concluding
c) forthcoming
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Reading Part 3
Read the sentences. Choose the correct word to fill the space.
a) really.
b) well.
c) together.
a) making
b) putting
c) taking
3. “I’m so busy, I’m not going to ……… the phone,” said John.
a) reply
b) speak
c) answer
a) information.
b) identification.
c) invitation.
a) work.
b) date.
c) order.
a) lacking.
b) wanting.
c) missing.
a) condition.
b) performance.
c) situation.
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8. We will have to ……… in to Mario’s demand, otherwise we could lose the contract!
a) move
b) give
c) stay
a) Assistance
b) Collection
c) Registration
10. “Which security guards are on the night ……… today?” asked the manager.
a) period
b) model
c) shift
11. We offer various options for the collection and ……… of commercial waste.
a) disposal
b) rejection
c) throwing
a) hope
b) courage
c) confidence
13. There are many reasons why teenagers are ……… to buy the product.
a) unenthusiastic
b) reluctant
c) passive
a) possess
b) indicate
c) deliver
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15. The annual report talks at great ……… about the company’s underlying values.
a) detail
b) point
c) length
16. The food in the staff canteen has improved beyond all ………
a) consideration.
b) recognition.
c) reflection.
17. When Dennis Greenholm ……… the top job, it was a major surprise to the owners of the
company.
a) turned down
b) pulled back
c) put away
18. The move is expected to lead to the ……… of hundreds of new jobs.
a) construction
b) arrival
c) creation
19. “Now I’d like you to list and ……… these qualities in importance,” said the trainer.
a) count
b) rank
c) measure
20. The Managing Director urged staff to do all they could to ……… the changes.
a) convey
b) yield
c) facilitate
21. In this case, the ……… responsibility lies with the Chief Financial Officer.
a) ultimate
b) extreme
c) sheer
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22. The next couple of months are likely to be difficult for the company, as the effects of their
recent merger ……… in July.
a) take up
b) run on
c) kick in
a) affect
b) impact
c) bear
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Reading Part 4a
Read the text and the questions. Choose the correct answer for each question.
I’m self-employed, although most of my business now comes from a software company. They have
a lot of visits from foreign consultants, so I do regular trips to and from the local city airport. I love
telling the consultants about the city, past and present. They usually say they’ve learnt interesting
things, so I get good tips!
My customers must hire me in advance, and I use a smartphone for calls, email and social media. At
first, I was in a radio circuit as well – I paid a fee to receive bookings from a central network. But I
stopped that because I felt I was beginning to get enough regular customers through my other
communication systems.
While I am driving in the city, I hate it when any car driver, taxi drivers included, leaves their engine
on for a long time when they are parked. This can really affect people’s health. Also, lorries
delivering to shops can hold up the traffic, and of course we’ve got customers expecting us at a
certain time.
Any taxi driver needs good interpersonal skills. But I also believe in waiting to see whether a
particular customer wants to talk or not. I realise not everyone wants to. Sometimes it’s me who’s
having a bad day, but I mustn’t show it – I have to keep smiling. Also, if someone’s really not being
pleasant, I don’t let it affect me and my driving.
Thinking about the future, I believe it’s important not to stand still, but to keep your business
developing. My work with the software company has been really valuable and if I could find more
contracted work of that kind – just one more regular corporate customer – I’d be happy. This might
mean that I have to take on an assistant to help me out, but that’s not on the plans for now.
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2. What does Michael say about getting customers via the radio taxi service?
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Reading Part 4b
Read the text and the questions. Choose the correct answer for each question.
When academics, businesspeople and politicians discuss the future of work, the four-day working
week is frequently mentioned. Supporters of the idea insist it’s a natural consequence of a jobs
market that now sees more and more people describing themselves as being self-employed and
able to choose their own working hours. But a more negative view of the same argument is – if the
predictions of some economists are to be believed – that millions of jobs are at risk in the age of
robots.
But is this really progress? In a UK radio documentary, professor of history Emma Griffin looked
back to an age before the great Industrial Revolution changed western society in the mid-18th
century. Work-life balance was the last thing workers wanted, and the five- or even six-day working
week was a great new thing.
“Before the Industrial Revolution most of the UK population was made up of agricultural workers
doing ‘piecework’ – what we might now call being self-employed,” Griffin explains. “They were tied
to the seasons; in the winter there wasn’t enough for them to do.” It is easy to get nostalgic about
this pre-industrial past, but in fact people were, in Griffin’s words, “often miserably, mind-
numbingly poor”. And so they rushed to take up the regular, year-round hours that the new
factories offered, seeing it as a kind of liberation.
And so began ‘the working week’. It started off, though, as six days long, usually filled by 14-hour
shifts in the factories and mines. The effect was what another expert, David Rooney, describes as
‘the standardisation of the population’. However, before long, he explains, such ‘social control’ felt
less like liberating people and more like exploiting them. At least trade unions forced factory
bosses to concede an extra half day on Saturdays.
More concessions followed, leading to workers being given the whole of Saturday off in the early
20th century. Now, however, the 5-day week is under threat. Some experts are even predicting a
21-hour working week that will completely reshape our lives. But Professor Griffin is concerned:
“The jobs we currently have will be shared amongst more people. There will be more jobs available,
and more time for leisure. But there will also be less pay, and therefore less to spend on leisure.”
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1. In the first paragraph, the writer says that the four-day week
3. In Emma Griffin’s view, the situation for pre-18th century farm workers
4. David Rooney makes the point that the six-day working week
5. Emma Griffin says that a big reduction in working hours will not
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Reading Part 4c
Read the text and the questions. Choose the correct answer for each question.
If your work, like mine, depends on finding undisturbed time for deep focus and creative thinking,
you’ll be familiar with distraction. But most people misunderstand what distraction really is – and
clearing up that confusion is an essential first step to any lasting solution. Instinctively, we divide
sources of distraction into two categories. First, temptations: when you’re grappling with a tough
creative challenge, wandering over to social media can seem irresistibly alluring. Then,
interruptions: co-workers asking questions, emails popping up, or the construction site near my
home office where workers compete, so far as I can tell, to hit pieces of metal with hammers as
loudly as they possibly can. However, when we think in terms of temptations and interruptions,
we’re defining the problem as coming from the outside – and we try to shut them out with website
blockers or noise-cancelling headphones. But there’s a reason such methods never work very well.
The real culprit isn’t external irritations, but rather an internal urge to be distracted, to avoid
focusing on what matters most.
Nobody diagnosed this problem as brilliantly as Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century German
philosopher who argued that we seek out distractions in order to stay mentally busy, so we can
avoid facing up to the big questions – like whether we’re living genuinely meaningful lives. We
tweet and click away because “when we are alone and quiet, we fear that something will be
whispered into our ear.” Worse still, even work that feels productive can really be a form of
distraction, if it keeps us from addressing what’s most important. “…we labour at our daily work
more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary,” Nietzsche wrote.
Another explanation, underscored by psychological research, is that we’re desperate for a sense of
autonomy, of being in charge. Consequently, we rail against anything we feel we’ve been ordered
to do – even if it’s ourselves who gave that order. And so you decide in advance to spend
Wednesday morning on your business plan, but when Wednesday comes, you rise up against the
taskmaster who gave that command, and start scrolling through Snapchat instead.
Congratulations, you’re a rebel – but unfortunately it’s your own goals you’re undermining.
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Happily, when you see distraction for what it really is, you’re much better equipped to fight it. All
the same, watch out for the inner urge, and when it arises, don’t try to squash it. Just sit with it,
breathe, and let it dissipate. Remember, too, that you don’t need to ‘feel up for it today’ in order
to do important work. Instead, let yourself feel like you’d rather be doing something else, and at
the same time, do the work: Open the laptop, make the phone call, type another sentence.
2. In the writer’s view, recognising that there are different types of distraction
3. In quoting Nietzsche, the writer draws our attention to the fact that
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