Test 2 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 30 minutes) Part 1 For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 Abalance B record GC income _D profit fPTae esa] Promotion is good for your health A recent study suggests that being promoted isn't just good for your bank (0) ........ 5 it's also good for your health. Researchers found that those who work in jobs with better promotion (1) ....... are less likely to develop serious illnesses. Specifically, those working in departments with double the average promotion (2) ....... had a twenty percent better chance of escaping serious illness. The researchers (3) ... medical conditions and educational level. (4) .... occurrences of illness were not simply due to a healthier or more (5) . .. into account factors such as family background, pre-existing .., they could be confident that the lower .. upbringing. The results seem to (6) ........ earlier studies showing that people who win prestigious awards, such as an Oscar or Nobel Prize during their career, have a tendency to outlive those who are less fortunate. As the author of the report says, ‘When our findings are put together with the large body of other (7)......... literature, there is little (8) that achieving a higher position at work is good for the health.”forecasts scale set Anyway privileged call for related hesitation advances rate took Moreover preferred go over combined question predictions degree put Consequently entitled back up referred reservation Reading and Use of English prospects ratio made Admittedly honoured lead to incorporated ‘opposition 31Test 2 Part 2 For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ‘one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). \Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: [0 |/ Nn | 0 | Handwriting idea what the handwriting of a good friend of About six months ago, | realised | had (0) .. mine looked like. We had always communicated by email and text but never by a handwritten letter. And it struck me that we are at a moment (9) ........ handwriting seems to be about to vanish .. some point in recent years, it stopped (11) ........ anecessary from our lives altogether. (10) .. and inevitable intermediary between people ~ a means by (12) ........ individuals communicate with each other, putting a little bit of their personality (13) ........ the form of the message as they .. among many press the ink-bearing point onto the paper. It has started to become just (14) options, often considered unattractive and elaborate. . as we can For each of us, the act of putting marks on paper with ink goes back as (15) .. remember. Our handwriting, like ourselves, seems always to have been there. But now, given that most of us communicate via email and text, have we lost (16) ....... crucial to the human ‘experience? 32