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The people below are all looking for a place to stay while they are on holiday in Torquay, a busy town in the south of England. Read about 8 types of accommodation. Decide which accomodation would be most suitable for each person. A Peace Haven Located right on the sea front, our hostel is popular with surfers. Plenty of parking and storage for equipment. Drying room and laundry. Prepare your own meals in our large kitchen, or eat out at one of the many seafood restaurants nearby. Accommodation is in shared male and female dormitories.  B Palm Court Just a five minute walk from the beach, Palm Court Caravan Park is perfect for families. Kids will love the adventure playground and heated pool with its slides and wave machine.  Entertainers perform twice a week. For parents, there’s a hot tub and bar. A babysitting service is also available in the evenings.  C Diana and Arturo’s Get creative in our quiet guest house in the hills. Enjoy sea views without the crowds....

Look at the text in each question. Mark which is the correct explanation NO BICYCLES AGAINST GLASS PLEASE A. Do not leave your bicycle touching the window. B. Do not ride your bicycle in this area. C. Broken glass may damage your bicycle tyres. Francesco! Problem - Maria's borrowed my history textbook and she's away. Could you lend me yours? Leave it with Ken when you see him. Thanks, Natalie Whose textbook does Natalie want to borrow? A. Ken's B. Maria's C. Francesco's This car park is locked after business hours each day. A. Users must lock the car park after leaving. B. People can park here while they are at work. C. This car park is for employees only. Players Wanted for Friday's basketball match against Barton College - can YOU help the team? Come to the gym at 3 p.m. today, whatever your level. A. The basketball team only wants to see experienced players. B. There aren't enough team members available on Friday. C. The Bart...

You are going to read a magazine article about people's experiences of going to theme parks. Answer the questions choosing from people.  Going to a theme park A. Tim  Mum and Dad gave us each some spending money for the day, so there'd be no further argument over buying must-have souvenirs from the shops! And to my relief we were allowed to go off by ourselves for a bit - luckily I've got an older brother and sister to accompany me, and we all managed to do the rides we wanted. That was important as the place was far more extensive than even my wildest dreams, and that's saying something! Dad had got some special offers that reduced the price of entry - and this doubled the fun, as they entitled us to go to the head of the queue for the rides, like celebrities. That was lucky - we could have wasted hours otherwise. And it meant I managed endless goes on my favourite, Ghost Train. Even in the pouring rain that we had a t one point, it never failed to thrill! ...

These people want to visit a museum. Here you have the description of eight museums. Decide which museum would be the most suitable for each one. Museums in the Area Cristina wants to visit a museum with her daughter to see how people used to live. They want to have lunch there and buy some presents to take home. They will go by car. Joanne wants to visit a museum and see people making things. She has no car and would like to have lunch there. Carl's hobby is painting pictures, so he would like to see the work of other painters who live in the area. He wants to have a snack at the museum. He travels by public transport. Duncan wants to find out where local people worked in the past and what they did in their spare time. He wants to buy a book about the exhibition. He travels by bus. The Cannavaro family want to walk around a site which offers opportunities for the whole family to take part in activities. They want somewhere pleasant to eat their own sandwiches. They have ...

Look at each text. What does it say? Mark your option. Please ring bell once and wait for door to open automatically. A. Someone will open the door when you ring the bell. B. The door will open after you ring the bell. C. You can open the door after ringing the bell. Claire. Tom needs to get the concert tickets. If you don't want to go, can you tell him? If he doesn't hear from you, he'll buy you one. A. Tom wants Claire to get a concert ticket for him. B. Tom can't go to the concert and wants Claire to use his ticket. C. Tom will get Claire a ticket unless she tells him not to. Trip cancelled on Thursday. Go to office for refund. A. You can get the money you paid for Thursday's trip from the office. B. If you haven't paid for Thursday's trip, you should go to the office. C. The trip which was cancelled will now take place on Thursdy. Mum,  The computer store can deliver your new computer tomorrow or you can collect it. They close a...

You are going to read part of the autobiography of a surfing instructir. Then, you have to choose which section(s) answer the following questions. Walking of Waves Sarah Whiteley talks about her love of surfing and how it began A. My journey to the sea began when I was tiny. My mum, who used to surf them, would sit me on one of her old boards and push me into the little waves in a few centimetres of water. We both soon realised I had an unstoppable appetite for the waves, something which has never faded. Soon after that we moved to a house which almost on the beach. I could literally walk out of the garden into the sea. Living by the sea is something you never take for granted if you surf. I open the curtains in the morning and my heart leaps as I see the long perfect lines of waves rolling into the bay. B. Being the only girl in the water when I was learning to surf never bothered me because I'd always been trying to keep up with an elder brother who was exceptionally g...

Holidays in Sydney This people are all on holiday in Sydney, Australia. There are descriptions below of eight places to visit. Decide which place would be the most suitable for each of the following people. Mark is an engineer and would like to spend a day looking at modern inventions and scientific discoveries. His 12-year-old daughter will probably go with him. Sarah Jones and her young son want to spend a day out and see some of the animals that Australia is famous for. Sarah also wants to buy presents to take home. Before she leaves Australia, Susan wants to spend a day shopping. She is looking for something special for her father, who is interested in art. She dislikes large shopping centres. Mario is hoping to spend six months touring round the whole of Australia. Before setting off he wants to find out as much as possible about its history and inhabitants. Stefan Holmstrom is interedted in modern buildi...

You are going to reas some information about airports in Britain. You have to choose which is the best airport for the questions below the text. More than one answer is possible. Which airport? The choice of where to fly from has never been greater, particularly for those flying on a package holiday. For each airport, we looked at the facilities (e.g. restaurants, waiting areas, etc.) offered before going through passport control (land-side) and after going through passport control (air-side). A. Heathrow 4 The check-in hall is spacious and modern. There are few land-side shops but the essentials are available. A café with pine seating and a medium range of hot dishes and salad is situated upstairs. There are more facilities airside. The shops are clustered into the central part of the 500-metre long hall, and expensive ranges are well represented. There's plenty of natural light from the windows that overlook the runaway and lots of seating away from the shopping area. ...

Four climbers who succeeded in climbing the world's highest mountain write about how they felt when they reached the summit. How I felt on conquering Everest  A. Roddy Makenzie It has occasionally been claimed that people climb for the smell of it. Air at very high altitude smells completely different. When I reached the South Summit, I was suffering from a lack of Spanish olives. I was preoccupied with thoughts of a tin of them sitting in my tent at base camp. This was the result of a very intense dream about olives that was interrupted by the alarm summoning me to our summit attempt. At the South Summit, the view of the main summit fascinated me from a mountaineering point of view and all dreaming of olives evaporated. On the summit, I felt a mixture of apprehension and curiosity. It seemed to me that the curvature of the Earth was apparent, and I spent some time trying to think of a means to test if this was a real observation or an illusion. Many people on the Indian su...

The young people below all want to do an art course during their school holidays. Following their texts, there are descriptions of eight short courses. Decide which course would be the most suitable for them. Alice wants a course to help her with her drawing skills, particularly with drawing the latest styles of clothes, shoes and bags, because she wants to study this later at college. Russell loves making comic books, but isn't confident about his drawing. He wants to draw superheroes and animals and create adventures about them, but doesn't want to display his work. Merida enjoys making pictures and objects from different materials. During the course she'd like to use her love of sport in her designs, and visit an exhibition to get new ideas. Gru is talented at drawing, but also likes filming his friends on an old digital camera. He wants to develop this skills by learning to use more advanced equipment, and prepare for further study. ...

Following a Dream Gabriel Just north of Fregate I met two manta rays. They were seven or eight feet wide massive out-stretched fins that seemed like rubberized wings. The water was murky, rich with plankton that attracted the giant rays that filtered it through their wide mouths. They treated me with caution, maintaining a constant distance if I turned towards them, but were content to let me swim on a parallel course, as if I too was feeding on the plankton. For a few minutes we were companions, until, circling and shifting shape against the depths, they became faint black shadows in the gloom and were gone. The deep blue of the Indian Ocean has captured my heart and drawn me back again and again to these pure shores. On Praslin there were dolphins off-shore and a pair of octopus, sliding accross the coral as they flashed signals to one another with changing skin tones as remarkable as - but much faster - than any chameleon. At Conception, close to Mahe, giant rocks formed an...

Holidays in a tree house You are going to read a magazine article about people who stayed in tree houses. Choose the best answer from the people who talks. The people may be chosen more than once. A Primary-school teacher Anisha Kapoor went to the Green Magic Nature Resort in Kerala, south-west India. ‘It wasn’t my first experience of tree house living,’ she says, ‘but it was certainly the best. I was pleased to see that in a region where there aren’t many jobs, the houses are entirely built and maintained by workers from the area, using traditional techniques and local materials. For instance, the lifts up to the front doors are made of cane grown in nearby fields. They work fine, by the way, and I was glad there were no stairs to climb – the houses are 25 metres up! That’s good, though, because at the height there’s often a cool breeze blowing through the branches. For power there’s solar energy, and the taps in the kitchen and bathroom are s...

You are going to read some articles about people who bought clothes in different ways. Choose the best option of them (it could be more than one) to answer the following questions: A. Brad Stevens I was food shopping in the big supermarket near here and I saw they were selling jeans at a ridiculously low price, so I thought I’d pick up a pair. Later when I remembered I had a job interview the week after, I realised I should have bought some formal trousers instead, but I suppose it was just one of those things you suddenly do when you see something going cheap. Even though I probably could have got them for less on eBay. Anyway, I spent quite a bit of time going through this great pile of jeans because all the different size were mixed up and they weren’t very clearly marked ‘large’ or ‘extra large’ or whatever. Eventually I came across a pair that seemed about my size and headed for the checkout. It was very slow there, and I got fed up standing in a...