MATURSKI /STRUČNI ISPIT

ENGLESKI JEZIK - OSNOVNI NIVO

ŠKOLSKA 2022/2023.
Vrijeme rješavanja testa je 150 minuta.

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Ne okrećite stranice dok to ne dozvoli dežurni nastavnik.

Za vrijeme rada na testu nije dozvoljena upotreba rječnika i elektronskih uređaja.

Odgovore treba pisati hemijskom olovkom. Odgovori napisani grafitnom olovkom
neće biti priznati.

Provjera razumijevanja slušanog teksta sastoji se od dva zadatka. Svaki tekst

slušaćete dvaput. Imaćete dovoljno vremena da pročitate pitanja prije nego što
čujete tekst kao i da provjerite svoje odgovore. Za vrijeme slušanja možete da
zapisujete odgovore.

Odgovore na pitanja višestrukog izbora treba pažljivo prepisati na List za

odgovore. Odgovori na pitanja koji nijesu napisani na listu za odgovore neće se
priznati.

Kod pisanja sastava dozvoljeno je pisanje koncepta na listovima za koncept. Vodite

računa o broju riječi, jezičkoj pravilnosti i čitljivosti teksta. Konačna verzija se čitko
prepisuje na predviđeno mjesto u testu i ona će biti bodovana.
Zadatak će se vrednovati sa 0 bodova ako je:
→ netačan
→ zaokruženo više ponuđenih odgovora
→ nečitko i nejasno napisan
→ rješenje napisano grafitnom olovkom

Ukoliko pogriješite, prekrižite i rješavajte ponovo.

Želimo vam puno uspjeha!

 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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1.1 You will hear a story about a strange experience one novelist had while writing a
new book.

For questions 1–6 choose the answer (A, B or C) which you think is the best according
to the extract.

1. Where did the author find a room?

A. In a hotel.
B. At his friend's house.
C. There is no such information.
2. How did the author feel about the room?
A. It was too noisy.
B. It was perfect for writing.
C. It was uncomfortable.
3. What made the author leave the room?
A. He needed a cup of coffee.
B. He needed a new pen.
C. He needed some fresh air.
4. What did the author see when he came back to the room?
A. The pen on the table.
B. The pen on the floor.
C. The pen was missing.
5. What did the author see when he opened his eyes in bed?
A. A ghost.
B. A book.
C. Nothing.
6. How did the author react when he saw the other man in the mirror?
A. He closed his eyes.
B. He broke the mirror.
C. He left the room.

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1.2 You are going to hear a story about Albert Einstein and his fascinating life.
For sentences 1–7, decide if each statement is true or false and put a tick (√) in the
appropriate box.

TRUE FALSE

Time magazine named Einstein ”the person of the millennia” in

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1999.
Einstein’s family moved away from Ulm, Germany after he was
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His father gave him a compass to help him learn about magnetic
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The compass had a huge effect on Einstein’s fascination with

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physics.

5. Even as a child Einstein was considered to be a boy wonder.  

6. His parents were worried because he wasn’t good at school.  

7. Einstein was disobedient and he threw temper tantrums at school.  

8. Einstein never went to the Army.  

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 2. READING COMPREHENSION

2.1 Read the paragraphs 1-8 and match them with the appropriate headlines below.
There is one extra headline.

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There is an awkward tradition among many Dutch parents. They take their kids
camping, then abandon them in the forest at night so the child must find their way
back on their own. Some parents follow their children on their way, hiding and even
growling in the dark.

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In 2020, Italian police delivered a donor kidney by travelling 490 kilometers in two
hours from Rome to Padua in a Lamborghini Huracan. Its average speed during the
trip was 233 km/h. The trip normally takes six hours.

3._____________________

Lifelong monogamous relationships are common among humans but far less so within
the broader animal kingdom. Once a wolf has found a mate they tend to stay together
forever, through sickness and health, often until death due them apart.

4._____________________

In 1956, after losing a bet at a bar, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from an airport
and landed it in front of the bar. Two years later, he repeated it after a man didn’t
believe he had done it the first time.

5._____________________

The world’s most poisonous plant is the Gimpy Gimpy. It’s found in Australia and
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the brink of extinction.
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Many Chinese who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high-quality plastic surgery
have difficulty re-entering China due to their passport photos not matching their new
face post operation.

7._____________________

In early 1900s, u group of US government scientists started a private dinner club, in

which they only ate poisonous food. They documented their illnesses in order to
convince Congress to pass food safety laws.

8._____________________

In 2005, a South African man, Marius Els, adopted a baby hippo after rescuing it from
a river. But six years later, the hippo, which weighed 1,200 kilos and was “like a son
Mr Els”, dragged him in that same river and ate him.

A. Bond for life

B. Endangered species
C. Fast and furious
D. Medical tourism
E. Ops, I did it again
F. Unusual summer rite
G. Precious delivery
H. Tragic end
I. The Poison team

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2.2 Read the text. Choose the answer (A, B or C) which you think is the best according to the
text.
The guitarist who saved hundreds of people on a sinking cruise liner

Having worked as an entertainer on board cruise liners for many years, guitarist Moss went on to
become a cruise director.

It was during dinner that Moss Hills began to realise just how severe the storm was. The ship's
waiters were struggling. Moss, a guitarist from Zimbabwe working on board the cruise liner
alongside his wife Tracy, a bass player, had never seen the waiters dropping trays before.
Earlier that day, gale-force winds and heavy rains had delayed sailing for the final leg of the cruise
towards Durban several times. But with no sign of conditions improving, the captain eventually
decided to lift anchor and the Oceanos, with 581 guests and crew on board, sailed off.
Moss and Tracy, both in their 30s, would usually host parties up on the pool deck as the ship sailed
away from port. But that day the party had been moved indoors.
At dinner, Tracy - who her husband describes as unflappable - decided to go to their cabin to
organise an emergency bag, just in case.
"Off she went," Moss says, "and suddenly - boom - all the lights went out."
When none of the ship's officers appeared to issue instructions, Moss, who was not easily
frightened, began to feel uneasy. Anxious guests began pouring into the lounge. Pot plants, ashtrays,
and chairs were sliding around, and people had to move from their seats to sit on the floor. Moss
noticed that the ship was heeling - no longer coming back to a level position when it was being
thrown about in the storm.
Hanging on to the handrails, Moss and another entertainer, Julian, a magician from Yorkshire, made
their way through the darkness below deck. They could hear excited voices speaking many different
languages. Officers were running around, some were carrying bags, some had life jackets on, and
some were wet. The Oceanos was sinking.
Some passengers in lifejackets sat on the floor, while others lined up for the lifeboats.
Back up in the lounge, there had still not been any announcements about what was going on. Moss
found the cruise director who said the captain had told her they were going to have to abandon the
ship.
"Then we found out that one lifeboat had already gone with a lot of the crew and senior officers on
it," he says.

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Moss and the others had no idea how to evacuate a cruise ship, nor how to launch the lifeboats but
there was nobody more qualified around to do it. One by one, they began lowering the starboard
side lifeboats down to the deck. Time was running out.
Unable to launch any more lifeboats, but with hundreds of people still in need of rescue, Moss and
others made their way up to the ship's bridge - where they assumed they would find the captain and
the remaining senior officers - to ask what to do next.
"We looked inside, but there was no one there," Moss says. "That's when we realised - it's just us."
They took turns trying to use the radio to send an SOS.
"I was calling, 'Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!' and just waiting for somebody to answer," Moss says.
" What are your coordinates?"
Moss had no idea what their coordinates were.
"What rank are you?"
"Well, I'm not a rank - I'm a guitarist."
Eventually, Moss found the captain, right at the back of the ship, smoking in the darkness. Moss
explained that they needed his help - urgently.
"He was just looking at me, wide-eyed and vacant, saying, 'It's not necessary, it's not necessary,'"
Moss says.
"I think he was in deep, deep shock."
The two ships close to the Oceanos had only one lifeboat each, so there was little they could do to
help. They shared the sinking vessel's coordinates with the South African authorities who began to
organise an air rescue mission.
On 4 August 1991, about 45 minutes after the last person on board had been airlifted to safety, the
Oceanos slipped away below the water. Everyone who had been put into lifeboats was rescued by
passing ships and remarkably no lives were lost.
Moss and Tracy, who now live in Liverpool, continued working as cruise ship entertainers for many
years. Even now, three decades later, Tracy prefers not to talk about the sinking or dwell on how
close they all came to losing their lives.
But Moss, who's been asked about the Oceanos many, many times, finds it cathartic to talk about.
He looks back on what happened with great relief.
"I'm not invincible," Moss says, "but if I can get through that, I can get through anything."

1. Moss noticed something unusual during dinner when

A. the lights went out.
B. The guests began pouring into the lounge.
C. the ship's waiters started dropping trays.
D. Tracy left to organise an emergency bag.
2. What did Moss and Tracy usually do as the ship sailed away from port?
A. Hosted parties on the pool deck.
B. Performed magic shows.
C. Played music in the lounge.
D. Relaxed in their cabin.
3. What did Moss notice about the ship during the storm?
A. It was heeling and not coming back to a level position.
B. The lights were flickering on and off.
C. The ship's officers were issuing instructions.
D. The storm had caused structural damage.

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 4. When the ship started sinking, Moss and others
A. went to their cabins to retrieve life jackets.
B. lowered the lifeboats down to the deck.
C. lined up for the lifeboats with their life jackets on.
D. tried to launch the lifeboats without success.
5. Why did Moss and others go up to the ship's bridge?
A. To find the captain and ask for instructions
B. To locate their coordinates for the SOS call
C. To gather more life jackets
D. To rescue senior officers
6. Who did Moss find on the bridge of the sinking ship?
A. The captain and senior officers.
B. Other entertainers and musicians.
C. Passengers in need of rescue.
D. No one, except for the captain later.
7. How did Moss communicate with the South African authorities for rescue coordination?
A. Using the ship's radio.
B. Using a satellite phone.
C. Sending smoke signals.
D. Using a megaphone.
8. What was the outcome of the air rescue mission?
A. Everyone on board was airlifted to safety.
B. The ship sank before the rescue could be completed.
C. Some people were rescued, but lives were lost.
D. The passing ships failed to rescue everyone in lifeboats.

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 3. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

3.1 Read the text and write the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

Three lions rescued a twelve-year old girl

kidnapped by seven men who wanted to force
her into marriage, 1. ________________ (chase)
off her abductors until she was rescued by
Ethiopian police. The men 2. ________________
(hold) the girl for a week in the remote south-
west, before the lions chased them away.

"Unfortunately, these young girls

3. ________________ (often/force) to accept
the marriage. Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because normally the lions
4. ________________ (attack) people. The girl’s crying could be mistaken for the sound from a lion
baby, which in turn could explain why the lions 5. ________________ (not/eat) her. They
6. ________________ (stand) guard when we found her. Then they just left her like a gift and went
back into the forest.

The girl 7. ________________ (take) by seven men before the lions found her. The men were the
ones who wanted to make her 8. ________________ (marry) one of them. If the lions had not come,
then it could have been much worse”, said Sergeant Williams in Kefa province.

Kidnapping young girls 9. ________________ (be) part of the marriage custom in Ethiopia for a long
time. The United Nations Organization 10. ________________ (estimate) that more than 70 percent
of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where most of the country’s 71
million people live.

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3.2 Read the text below and fill in each gap using ONE word only. Answers are expected to
be spelled correctly and, if necessary, capitalized.

Sarajevo zoo welcomes pair of golden-cheeked gibbons

The Sarajevo zoo on Monday welcomed 1 ________________ first pair of golden-cheeked gibbons.
The pair joined the family of European menageries that are trying to save the endangered small apes
2 ________________ extinction.

After arriving in Sarajevo from Slovenia, the two gibbons — a male and 3 ________________ were
placed under quarantine and are expected to make their public debut in mid-March.

“We have been preparing for their arrival for nearly 4 ________________ year, having started the
construction of their habitat last March,” said Aldijana Hamza, the Sarajevo zoo’s spokeswoman.

Their enclosure has been built on an island in the center of a small artificial lake and once they are
allowed outside only water 5 ________________ separate them from visitors, Hamza explained.

The gibbons' arrival was a turning 6 ________________ for the Sarajevo Zoo. The Zoo was
established more than 65 years 7 ________________.

“It can be considered a major success for this small zoo to have become a 8 ________________ of
the major global and European initiative to preserve these endangered animals,” said Vedad Skapur,
a lecturer 9 ________________ the Veterinary Faculty of the Sarajevo University.
The smallest of the apes, gibbons, used to be widespread across much of Asia. 10 ________________,
their numbers have been greatly reduced due to deforestation, hunting and illegal trade, landing
them on the list of endangered animal species.

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3.3 Write the correct form of the words in brackets.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

On March 20, 2009, the 1. ________________ (produce) THEMSELVES announced that the
English title of the new anime series was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. They wanted to
2. ________________(advice) the viewers to watch its English language premiere on Animax
Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles.

The series premiered on April 5 2009, on MBS television anime time block, replacing Mobile
Suit Gundam 00, and ran 3. ________________ (week) until airing its final episode on July 4
2010.

After a 4. ________________ (horror) alchemy experiment goes wrong in the Elric household,
brothers Edward and Alphonse ignore the alchemical principle banning human
transmutation. After that, they are left in a catastrophic new 5. ________________ (real).

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 4. WRITING

4.1 You share a room in campus with two other students. However, there are problems
with this arrangement, and it’s been very difficult for you to study.
Write a letter to Mr Smith, the accommodation officer at the college. In your letter

 describe the problems you are experiencing

 propose a time when Mr Smith can come and check the conditions himself
 suggest the solution to your problem.

Write 50–100 words. Do not write your name.

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4.2 Choose one of the following writing tasks.
Choose one of the following writing tasks.

1. The impact of the Internet on the spread of false information

2. Lessons learned from the experience of being betrayed by your best friend
Write your opinion giving a specific example from your personal experience.
Write your essay in 100-150 words.

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