Profesores Asociados Egresados del Instituto de

Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”

LEVEL A3 PAPER 1 / 13
Nombre: ________________________________________________________________________
1. Read and answer the questions

Would you like to be Albert Einstein? Would you like to feel like Marilyn Monroe? Or Madonna?
Well now you can feel like these famous people and many more at the Fame Hotel in California. Ten miles
outside Los Angeles, the Fame Hotel promises to answer the question "What if?". When you check into the
hotel, you choose a room. Each room has a name. There's Clint Eastwood on the second floor and Elvis
Presley on the third floor. In total, the Fame Hotel has 32 rooms, most of which are named after stars of
Hollywood or music. But there are also famous writers (Mark Twain and Agatha Christie) and even some
scientists and sports stars, such as Mike Tyson.
When you enter the room, you enter the life of that person. There are pictures everywhere. The owner of the
hotel has tried to fill the room with objects, clothes, even food that he thinks the stars would have liked. Marilyn
Monroe's wardrobe is full of beautiful white dresses, Albert Einstein doesn't have any socks in his wardrobe
because the real Einstein never wore them! If you choose Mike Tyson's room, you'll be able to practice boxing
in one corner of the room. And there's even a skipping rope too!
I spoke to one guest staying in the Elvis Presley room. "I love this hotel," he said to me. "I wanted to know
'What would Elvis Presley eat for breakfast?' and now I know". That guest eats pancakes and strawberry ice
cream every morning, just as Elvis liked to do. On the next table, the Einstein room's guest is eating cabbage
soup!
The company plans to open another Fame Hotel in New York next year and there are plans to expand into
Europe too. I look forward to staying in the Winston Churchill suite in London.

1. What kind of questions does the Fame Hotel promise to answer?

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2. All the hotel rooms are named after Hollywood stars or stars from the music world. T F
3. What happens when you enter a room in the Fame Hotel?
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4. What has been done to help guests feel like the star the room supposedly belongs to?
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5. All guests are served the same kind of food. T F

2. Now read about Martin, who was going on holiday, and complete the blanks with a suitable linking
word

Martin had a terrible day yesterday. It was the day of his vacation to Spain. ____________________ it was a
nightmare. He left the house at 10 o'clock in the morning and caught a taxi to the airport.
Martin went to the check-in with his luggage. ____________________ the man who worked for the airline
asked for his passport, Martin became very upset. He realized he didn't have his passport or his DNI with him.
What a disaster!
He jumped back into the taxi and told the driver to take him home. ____________________ there was a lot of
traffic, the driver drove really fast and Martin arrived back at his house in twenty minutes.
He ran into the house and went into his bedroom. He started looking for the documents, but neither of
____________________ was there. Where were they? He looked ____________________ in the wardrobe and
under the bed, ____________________ he couldn’t find them. Martin was beginning to feel desperate. He went
into the kitchen and found his documents on the table next to the coffee machine!
When Martin went out of his house the taxi wasn't there ____________________ he started running down
the street looking for another taxi.
____________________ a few minutes, Martin found another taxi and told the driver to take him to the
airport ____________________ quickly as possible. The traffic on the roads was very bad
____________________ Martin arrived at the airport on time and finally managed to catch his plane.

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Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”
LEVEL A3 PAPER 1 / 13
3. Read about John Cookson and put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. When you see a + use a
modal
John Cookson ____________________ (always be) interested in the sea. His mother told him that she
____________________ (+ be) like him when she was a child and that was why she bought him an aquarium. He
____________________ (have) collections of tropical fish since that time.
For the last twenty years he ____________________ (live) in a big house in Auckland where he has an aquarium.
Last year he ____________________ (open) it to the public. His collection includes several sharks which
____________________ (swim) around looking dangerous.
“People ____________________ (not understand) sharks. It’s true they ____________________ (+be)
dangerous, but they only attack humans on very rare occasions. You ____________________ (+be) careful when
you’re near a shark. That’s all, ” he says.
“Once, while I ____________________ (swim) in the sea, a great white shark tried to attack me but I hit it on the
nose with my camera,” John says and smiles.

4. John is showing his aquarium to a group of visitors. Complete the blanks with a suitable word

“First of all I must tell you that you are not ____________________ to feed the fish. So, please, don’t throw any
food into the tanks.
Now, this is a catfish. I don’t know ____________________ it has that name. Maybe it’s because it looks
____________________ a cat. What do you think? Some people think it is ____________________ ugliest fish in
the aquarium but I quite like it.
Here we have the rays. The electric one can hurt you ____________________ you frighten it, but in general it is
not dangerous.
And these are the seahorses. Seahorses are ____________________ most special fish in the aquarium, so I think
you ____________________ have a good look at them. They all start life as girls, but as soon
____________________ a boy seahorse dies, the strongest girl seahorse becomes a boy. I’ve
____________________ seen three of them transform, and it is really a wonderful experience.
We’ve got two big tanks in the West wing of the aquarium. ____________________ of them are for sharks
because they cannot share the tank with other fish. Shall we go and look at them?”

5. Complete this interview with Cathy Taylor,a member of SOS (Save our Seals) organization
Interviewer: _____________________________________________________________________________?

C Taylor: Well, it started in the winter of 1994 when a man saw a seal on the beach and thought it
needed help.

Interviewer: _____________________________________________________________________________?

C Taylor: People usually phone us when they see a seal on the beach.

Interviewer: _____________________________________________________________________________?

C Taylor: We have saved more than three hundred seals from the seas of New Zealand.

Interviewer: _____________________________________________________________________________?

C Taylor: We help the seals and then we put them back in the sea. Last week, for example, we brought
Sammy, a baby seal, here in a cage. He was hurt.

Interviewer: _____________________________________________________________________________?

C Taylor: If Sammy is OK by the end of the week, we’ll put him back in the sea.

6. Composition. Write about 60 – 80 words on one of the following:

 The Perfect Holiday

 “And that’s the end of the story. He won’t ever do it again.” (final sentence)