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During a recent game between two of Brazil's biggest football teams,

men have changed their

view of the place a

woman should have in
society.

Annie Macntosh has been a referee for six years and is currently

funniest when spectators suddenly become aware that she is a woman and become tongue-tied. 'A voice in the crowd will shout, "Oi, linesmanl I mean lineswoman! Erm, I mean assistant referee!"'

the country's top striker head-

off. 'ldiot,' he shouted at

butted an opponent and was sent the

the highest level female official in Bitain. During her rise to this position, she has learnt to be tolerant of criticism, and not to
become excited or get offended by

it is unlikely that a woman footballer will have the physical

While
strength to compete at the top level in a men's team, there is no similar

obstacle

referee. 'Just what you would

aggression to his opponent that really landed him in trouble. He was punished for this by being banned from the next four matches. The target of his venom,
Gisele Fabio, has become the most

expect from a woman.' lt was this comment rather than his

hurtful verbal attacks. She takes the comments with a pinch of salt. 'He is entitled to say what he likes. There is no point getting yourself

men's football. ln fact, the authorities running European

football are actively encouraging women referees, believing it helps increase women's interest in football generally.
ln Brazil, Gisele Fabio says the path

to women

refereeing

all upset. From the experiences that I have had he is in the

minority.'

You have to develop a thick skin as a female referee in the men's football. s4 game. ln spite of all this, Macintosh says that being a woman on the Times are changing in British field can have its advantages too. football, too. Not long ago the Many men consider it wrong to use manager of a Scottish team was bad language in front of women. 'Sometimes you get the odd idiot forced to resign after criticising the country's first woman referee by who shouts something, but usually saying: 'l knew it wasnt going to they use less colourful language. be our day when I found out we They behave better. One team had a woman running the line. She coach told me he wanted me to should be at home making the tea referee another game at that club or the dinner for her man after he to improve the players' behaviour.' has been to the football. This is a professional man's game.' An The confusion, she adds, also has attitude like this may have been its comic moments. Fans have not relatively common a few updated their vocabulary to take generations ago, but over the last account of female officials. decade or two the vast majority of Macintosh says she finds t

to becoming a referee has been about breaking down cultural

rather than legal barriers. 'For as long as l'm aware there have been no rules against women refereeing the men's game. lt was just that

high-profile woman

in

Brazilian

none did.' Fabio agrees that footballers treat female referees differently. 'ln principle they treat you with more respect. They are scared that you will give them a card more readily. This is an

advantage for

us.'

Most

impressively, Fabio has been top of the referee rankings published by daily sports papers. 'l think I was

first because I am a novelty. But I don't think I am better than the

others. My refereeing is the same.'

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in British football? What point is made to show that times are changing can lose their jobs' A Managers who don't like women referees B Women are no longer expected to stay at home'

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Scotland now has a woman referee' A man cannot criticise a woman referee today'

3WhichphrasebestdescribesMacintosh'sreactiontothemanager'swords?

A B C D

angrY and hurt sad and dePressed calm and confident bitter and resentful

What does 'ln spite of all this,' in line 54 suggest? A although women referees are often criticised referees B in spite of the fact that there are so few womenwoman referee C even though men tend to behave better with a referee D despite the difficulty of getting work as a woman
The comic aspect mentioned is based on A the idea that fans are neryous of women referees'

Btheconfusionfansfeelwhentheydon,tknowwhattocallafemaleofficial. is a

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they see the official the embarrassment people experience when woman. the fact that fans don't have a big vocabulary'

Why are women referees being encouraged? A They have to face a lot of obdtacles' B There is a shortage of men referees' C They don't have to be as physically strong as men' D They will attract more women spectators'

TWhatdoesGiseleFabiosayaboutthebarrierstowomenbecomingreferees? A They may be connected with social attitudes not laws'

B C D

They do not exist in developed countries' The legal barriers are being removed' barriers' The women themselves have removed these

According to Gisele Fabio, A men referees do not deserve as much respect as women referees'

Bfootballersthinkthatwomenrefereesarestricterthenmenreferees. C women usually make better referees than men' Dsheisatthetopoftheratingsbeausewomenrefereesareunusual.

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of shopping' shop, which may eventuatty change the future
The prototype robot shop

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yet be described as entirety efficient' The robot arm There's a lot of room for improvement' rne represents one of the biggest probtems' mJ--.l pick up the item it arm has to be very accurate in order to safely drop it into it' has reached fo carry it to the hatch and
is another reason The difficul'ty of judging customer attitudes are stitl why the robot'shop has to be tested' Customers in a robot shop' most of their shopping
cautious about doing but this is onty to be expected; every
regarded

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an impressive cheese, white the displ'ay on the left has does not have selection of biscuits, coffee cakes and crisps. It with a late the variety of conventional shops, but it can cope
night request for bread or painkillers'

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the goods you

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A central console between the windows is where you actually do your

shopping.
The first thing you notice are the two large display windows which are absolutely packed with goods. Older customers in particular may find the experience cold and impersonal, but a younger generation may respond more positively. The real question is whether, over the three-month testing period, enough people will overcome their doubts and start shopping here in significant numbers. For security reasons, you have to do this before the robot arm starts gathering your goods.

E F G

Many shops like these only survive because they stay open late, or even round the clock in some cases.
Experience with similar mechanised service equipment, such as cash dispensers, suggest that there are considerable advantages for both customers and shop owners. The challenge is to create a piece of machinery which will be delicate enough to pick up eggs but at the same time strong enough to pick up bottles of mineral water and baked bean cans.

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I was always keen on sports. Running a long distance is a bit like life too.You start with a sense of anticipation, you go through some great highs and terrible lows, but in the end it seems to be worth it.There s nothing that I enloy more than a good workout at the gym or a good one-hour run across the local wildlife reserve. Fortunately, where I live, I can reach the open countryside in just a couple of minutes on foot from my front door step. ln my case, participation in the London Marathon was not about winning, it was about doing the best you possibly can. My first marathon was a disaster. Everything was going fine until the twelfth mile when I started to feel a bit of fatigue kicking in and hit the wall between the fourteenth and

it's about how much pain you can take. Long distance running is a good discipline for life itself. I run with my head and my heart, because physically I dont think I've got a
great deal of talent or ability. I was always a very energetc sports person and I have entered the marathon five times so far. Last year I managed to complete a half marathon in

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B Rosalind Masterson I surprised myself by doing so well,to tell you the truth. lt all started when a friend of mine was training for the marathon and asked me to join her a few mornings a week. I didnt think I was very fit when I started, although years ago ld go cycling three times a week and jogging at weekends. I found the experience enjoyable but realised I preferred logging on my own. Success depends a lot on your mood. Last year, for example, I was feeling very stressed for one reason or another, and I got tired much more quickly; I didnt even get to the end of the course! This year's been completely different. London was such a success that I've entered for the Berlin Marathon next month, along with three friends. My husband thinks I'm mad, though when we watched the news that night and he could see my face among the crowds, he was fairly
impressed.

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for years, and he finally persuaded me to go along with him one Saturday to see if I would enjoy it. Well, I felt fairly good afterwards, so I joined the club and started thinking seriously about running. I thought that entering for the marathon would give me a unique opportunity to raise some caslr for the Red Cross. ln fact, four of us from the office decided to do the same thing, and between us we raised over f25,000, which was great! Running wasnt as
hard as I expected.Training can be difficult, especially when it means I have to drag myself out of bed on cold winter mornings and go jogging in the pouring rain. I never train

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you are the organiser of a music socety in your town. You have received a letter from a music society in Britain, who would like to give a concert to your members. Read the letter and the notes you have made. Then write a letter to sally Richardson, the British organiser. You must use all your notes.

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There are l5 members in our society.Would you be able to find accommodation for us for one night?
Please let me know if you are nterested in our suggestion and tell me something about your own socety.

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You have been discussing families in your English lessons, and now your teacher has asked you to wrte on the following topic for homework: What are the main differences between growng up in a small or large family? Which is belter for you?

Write your essay. Six months ago your family moved from the city to a small country village. Write a letter to an old friend you haven't seen since then, saying how you feel about the change in lifestyle. Write your letter. Do not write any addresses.
You recently saw this notice in an English-language magazine called Movie News:

Send us your review of the EESf or WORSTfilm you have seen this year. lnclude information on the story and characters and say what made the film so good/bad.
We will publish the best reviews in a special summer supplement.

Write your review. Answer one of the following two questions based on your reading of one of the
set books.

Either

(a) Your pen friend has asked you Io recommend somethinQ to read on holiday. Write a letter to your friend about the book you have read, giving reasons why this particular book would be suitable for your

pen friend.

Or

(b) You have just seen the following announcement on your school

noticeboard;
BOOK COMPETITION

lmagine you could change the ending in the book or one of the stores you have read. What kind of ending would you choose and why? Write us an article answering this question. You could win a prize. Write your article with reference to the book or one of the short
stories you have read.

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However, most parents worry that their children spend too much time browsing the lnternet or playing computer games, hardly (1) ...... doing anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents want to know if these activities are (2) ...... for their children. What should they do if their children spend hours (3) ..... a computer screen?

Obviously, if children spend too much time (4) ...... in some game instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong. lt is a good idea if parents and children
decide together how much use should be (5) ...... of the lnternet, and the child should (6) ..... that it won't interfere with homework. lf the child does not (7) ...... to this arrangement, parents can take more drastic (8) ...... .

Any parent who is (9) ...... alarmed about a child's behaviour should make an appointment to (10) ...... the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of a computer screen does not (11) ...... affect a child's performance at school. Even if a youngster seems obsessed with the computer, he or she is probably just (12) ...... through a phase, and in a few months parents will have something else to worry
about!

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C never C hurting C looking

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The idea that a blind person could drive a car sounds crazy. And the concept of
someone (0) .......... can't see driving a car at almost 150 miles per hour sounds even crazier. Miranda Naylor, (13) .......... blind accountant from Southport, has done

exactly that in an attempt (14) .......... raise money for charity. Mrs Naylor drove a sports car (15) .......... two miles in a straight line along the runway of a disused airfield. She was (16) .......... radio contact with her husband, Pete Naylor, who was able to give (17) .......... directions and advice in this way. Her amazing achievement (18) ....,..... expected to raise about f50,000, which will be donated to a company that trains dogs for {19) .......... blind. Mrs Naylor (20) ....r..... been blind since she was six years old, and she still has some visual memories of the world around her. She admits that not'rhaving her sight makes life awkward Q1) .......... times. She believes that if you are disabled in any

way, you shouldn't waste time feeling sorry for (22t, '.."'.'-..'lt makes arlot (23) ...,...... sense to keep busy,' she says' 'Achieving somelhing can be a great source of self-confdence.' Miranda is'now looking'(24) ......;.;. o new challenge and would like to try motorbike riding.

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Bird populations can increase considerably if swallows have had a good breeding season, and for the moment at least, scientists are not overly worried.

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don't understand the mechanism of life.

can't remember who theY are.

forget how to perform simple tasks.

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27 Apparently, our memories are harmed by

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Where did you spend your last holidays? What sort of activities do you enjoying doing on holiday? Where would you like to go for your next holidays? What would be your ideal holiday?

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will each be asked to talk for a minute without interruption. You will each be given two different photographs in turn to talk about. After your partner has finished speaking, you will be asked a brief question connected with your partner's
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photographs.

Turn to pictures 1 and 2 on page 150 which show different forms of transport. Candidate A, compare and contrast these photographs, and say why you think people use these different means of transport. You have a minute to do this' Candidate B, which of these methods of transport do you think is most useful?

Turn to pictures 1and2 on page 151 which show different sorts of fashionable clothes. Candidate A, compare and contrast these photographs, and say why you think the people have chosen to wear these sorts of clothes. You'have a minute to do this. Candidate B, which of these would you feel most comfortable wearing?

Part 3 (3 mnutes)
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will be asked to discuss something together without interruption by the examiner. You will have a sheet of pictures with questions to help you.

Turn to the pictures on page 152 which show a number of images connected with environmental probldms. The children in a school class are preparing posters to raise environmental awareness in their area. Talk to each other about each image. Then decide which two of these pictures would be the most useful for the children's posters.

Part 4

(4 minutes)

The examiner will encourage you to develop the topic of your discussion in Part 3 by asking questions such as:

Are school clubs and societies, such as a photographic club and a computer club, useful for pupils? Why (not)? What kind of after-school activity did you or would you enjoy at school? Why? Should schools try to become active parts of the local community? Why (not)? How can schools raise people's environmental awareness?

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even breakfast accommodation' You could the homes of your offer to put people up at societY members' how 6 Give information about your own society: they are' many members there are' how old etc' what kind of music they are interested in' that you are looking forward 7 Finish nf saying to hearing from her soon'

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Content: 1 Describe the place where you now live'

2 Sum up the differences between life in this small village and your previous life in a city'

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3 Explain what you enjoy and don't enjoy about the present situation. lllustrate your points with examples. 4 Say how you feel about the future, and how you think you will adapt to this new situation' Have you regretted moving? lf you had the chance, would You go back to the citY?

Ouestion 4 Style: Neutral or informal. Content: 1 You could begin by saying whether the film you are going to write about is the best or worst film You have seen this Year' 2 Give some basic information about the film, such as who directed it and who acted in it.

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Laura Bartlett: Lotsl Fortunately, I already knew a fot about the different species and varieties of frowers avairabre, but.[ now had to learn how te look after them. preoare them so they lasted. wire them if necessarv. lnterviewer: Wire them? Laura Bartlett: Yes. ln some arrangements, flowers have to keep a certain position, and one of the ways you can make sure they do this is by twisting fine wire rund their stems. lnteryiewer: Oh, I see. Would you say that being a florist is a good career for a young person? Laura Bartleth That depends. you have to rove frowers, but you must also be good with people. you see, people come into a florist's for many reasons _ often they want some 'flowers as a gift for a birthday, perhaps thV *unt to apologise to someone, a family merl". be ill. They depend on you to help.them. make the "ollo ,igni so you hav to take an interest. And it,s not all p"rutty "noi"", you flo*"rr. havej to get up before dawn to Ouv goojq;"iity lo*"r" from the markeU it,s not much fun *h"" i", have to put your hands into freezing,water in winter; V, ,tunO most of
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florists, how would they go about it? Laura BartletA: Well, they could try gettng a job at a florist,s and learn the business on the ob. r tf,"i take a course at a college. My advi "JrlO
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the weekend painting the living room, and on morning I wo_ke up ralitt tfr" r1" backache; I I"j_d,"t ust couldn't get out of bed. The pain,s off t today, ""r"0 " examination. I don,t litu. Oeinlotf *-ffif,"ciaily this week when we're organising the unnr"i saLs conference ...

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a company that. is buildng

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Journalist: Mr Barns, I wonder if I could start with some

practical information. I know construction s set to begin next month: when do you expect to finish, and what do you think the total cost of Whitesea Mall will be? David Barns: l'm going to stick my neck out and say we,ll meet the original targets, which is to have the mall open by Julv next veaf. As for the costs. well. aqain our estimate was twelve billion pounds. and l,m pretty confident the final cost will not exceed that Journalist: Bight ... And what are the investors getting for that sort of money? I mean, what's going to make thii place ' special? What will attract customers to the mall? David Barns: Oh, lots of things! For a start. there,s a new train station beinq built riqht next to the mall, so people will be able to reach us from the city centre in under twenty
minutes. vehicles, and we're just off the motorway, which will mean easy.access for customers living up to 100 kms from the mall. On top of that, we've put in a great deal of thought into how to make shopping easier for families with small

There's part of Beethoven,s b,h symphony that always makes me.feel very emotion"l, ""lu"u t wls playing the evening when I met myfuture'husoaJ. listen to that particular piece of -,,". l'*i#" ^d +L^_-

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completely safe hands while they do their shopping. Journalist; I see ... And I understand you have the usual wide range of shopping facilities. But dont you need other attractions to persuade people to come here?

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3 Act.ually, the thing l,ll miss is my bike. I suppose what I really mean is that . I cycle tro, ,y t or" "u"ry*,"r" to London. in..Cambridge - except for long trips iike going When you ride a bike, you decide on the -best route and final destination. When you,re n the jungle, you,re totally dependent on other people. 4

Going on an expedition like this can be quite a culture shock: you suddenly find yourself without any of the luxuries of western life. lt,s the thinqs thar m;ke ;,;.
be dr"umng of mu-u"hng lovely clean clothes, ironed and tidy. I on,t mind being deprived of the luxuries of everyday life because I know it,s only going to be for a limited time.

. We also came up with an dea for the older folk, because lots of families these days have grandparents living with them. ln one of the cinemas

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I know it sounds terribly luxurious, but I think the single item l'll miss most is my espresso machine. I can,t function

flowe.ts lininq the oaths, giving tf," irnpr"""on that you,re actually outdoors. And we,re buildinq a Nature Centre. displays to inform peopte about the

moring. Of course, it is a luxury at the en of te Oay, ut it's become so important to me that I'd almost classify it as a necessity now!

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Winters. an expert on human memory. Ann, welcome to the programme. Now, I suppose the first question everyone would ask is: what exactly is the human memory? Ann Winters: Well, like so many easy questions, the answer isnt very simple. Basically, the human memory is a compartment in our brain, where we store images, rather like the hard disc drive in a computer. And like a hard disc drive, our memories can become infected or even wiped out by accidents. But the comparison breaks down when
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expand and we consder that we can tran our memories to computers can't manage "' yet! * o"tt"t - which lnterviewer: When you talk about memory being infected' do you mean bY a disease? Ann Winters: Yes' For instance, people suffering from a physiological disease like Alzheimert forget things that pened in the past and thev also forget how to perform siole tasks. like tying their shoelaces. The good news is that brain exercises can keep the brain young. Research ducation. and have more mentallv active iobs. have a lower risk of develooing the disease. lnterviewer: And how can someone exercise his brain - by

I know the film is supposed to be fantastic, but normally I wouldn't bother going to see one like that' I mean, this is not the kind of film that usually appeals to me. The story is based on a book by Hemingway that we're reading in class this term, and I thought that watching the film would make the book clearer to me, so I think l'll go next weekend. 2
I don't know what the problem was. This wasn't the

thinking a lot?
Ann Winters: ln a way, yes! But you can also practise using your memory, which not only exercises your brain but also improves your ability to remember things' Unfortunately' a lot of devices in modern life are designed to make sure we dont forget thinqs, which can make our brain more idle and weaken our memory. lnterviewer: Would you give us examples of how to
exercise our memory? Ann Winters: Sure. There's a very simple technique' although it works better for some people than for others' Whatever vou want to remember' think of a physical thino it reminds vou of. lf I want to remember a date from history - let's say 1066, the date of the Battle of Hastings - I might think that 'battle' reminds me of 'bottle'. So I think of a bottle with the number 1066 written on the label, and I just

bottleneck you get when you come off the motorway. I must have been stuck there for over an hour, hardly moving an inch, feeling frustrated and anxious that I wouldnt make it in time. lt took me two hours to reach the airoort, althouqh it was only a couple of miles awav!
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It really was a lovely surprise. I knew she was thinking of getting me a piece of jewellery because she'd asked me what sort of earrings I liked, but I hadn't expected pearls! I think she's trying to be especially nice because she wasnl so pleased when Colin told her we were getting married; he's her only son, and she wanted him to wait a few more years before settling down - which is what his sister did' She was over 30 when she married .'.
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I thought it was going to be a big mistake, when he got that transfer from Liverpool. They were going through a bad patch these last two seasons, but they were a good team, and I thought he should have stayed. But it turns out I was dead wrong! He's been getting better and better since he siqned with Arsenal, and he scored a hat-trick in the cup

picture that bottle to mYself. lnterviewer: Why is it easier to remember a physical thing than a sentence such as'The Battle of Hastings was in
1066',?

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Ann Winters: Because our brains are better at recalling pictures than abstract thought. That's why I said it works better for some people than for others; some people are oarticularly good at seeing pictures in their minds visualising ideas - and they are the ones that can remember things best using this technique. lnterviewer: ls there anything else we can do to protect our
brains?

A: Good morning.

Do you have any tickets left for this evening's performance? B: Let me just have a look ..' Well, the rear stalls and circle are completely sold out .'. There are a few seats left in the front stalls ... How many tickets do you want? A: Just two. B: Yes, I can give you two in the third row ... they're f39

Ann Winters: You simply have to exercise your brain regularly with new, enjoyable and interesting activities, like learning a new language or playing a new computer game' lnterviewer: Are you suqgesting that simple things like doinq crosswords can make the brain more efficient? Ann Winters: Absolutely. lnterviewer: l'll keep that in mind! Ann Winters, thanks for being with us. Ann Winters: You're welcome.

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News travels fast in a small village, I suppose' so everyone seemed to know, before I got there, that I'd be teaching at the local school. Whether that made the villagers more formal in the way they treated me - for the first few months at least - I really don't know. I gathered from the way they spoke that they regarded me as quite foreign because I came from London, and this did startle me for a

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You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8, choose the best answer, A, B or C.

It was the decade of peace after the war to end all wars' lt was a time of decadence and wild enthusiasm - a time of mourning and attempts to recover from the losses of World War l. The 1920s were the dawn of our modern a9e' when people were still looking back at the previous

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he insulted the female referee.

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Z What point is made to show that times are changing in British football? A Managers who don't like women referees can lose their jobs' B Women are no longer expected to stay at home' C Scotland now has a woman referee. D A man cannot criticise a woman referee today'

3 Which phrase best describes Macintosh's reaction to the manager's words?

A B C D
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angry and hurt

sad and depressed calm and confident bitter and resentful

What does 'ln spite of all this,' in line 54 suggest? A although women referees are often criticised B in spite of the fact that there are so few women referees c even though men tend to behave better with a woman referee D despite the difficulty of getting work as a woman referee The comic aspect mentioned is based on A the idea that fans are neryous of women referees' B the confusion fans feel when they don't know what to call a female official. c the embarrassment people experience when they see the official is a woman. D the fact that fans don't have a big vocabulary' Why are women referees being encouraged? A They have to face a lot of obtacles' B There is a shortage of men referees. C They don't have to be as physically strong as men' D They will attract more women spectators' What does Gisele Fabio say about the barriers to women becoming referees? A They may be connected with social attitudes not laws' B They do not exist in developed countries' C The legal barriers are being removed. D The women themselves have removed these barriers' According to Gisele Fabio, A men referees do not deserve as much respect as women referees. B footballers think that women referees are stricter then men referees. C women usually make better referees than men' D she is at the top of the ratings because women referees are unusual.

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