PART FOUR
Questions 21-35

·Read the text below about job prospects at the Provincial Bank.

·Choose the correct word A, B, C, or, D on the opposite page to fill each gap.

·For each question 21-35, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.

Employment Opportunities for Graduates with the Provincial Bank
The Provincial Bank is one of the biggest (example) ____________ institutions in the U.K. With its 1,900 branches and 58,000 employees, it has (21) ____________ a household name. Almost 4,000 of these employees (22) ____________ managerial or executive positions. The bank has an outstanding (23) ____________ of profitability, which has been achieved by introducing innovations at the same time as maintaining leadership of the (24) ____________.

The bank’s comprehensive training programme concentrates on (25) ____________ the most important skills that graduates need in order to (26) ____________ early management responsibility. Trainees take responsibility for their own continuous self-development through visiting other branches and departments, and by (27)____________ courses in management skills. They also receive training in order to increase their knowledge of the bank’s (28) ___________. The bank supports (29)____________ of staff who wish to take professional examinations, and its Graduate Training Scheme is (30)_____________ to the nationally recognized Diploma in Management.

Obviously the quality of its mangers is of (31)____________ importance to the bank’s performance. It welcomes good graduates in any subject area, (32)____________ they can demonstrate the ability to influence events, and have the potential to (33)____________ both as leaders and as part of a team. Most graduate trainees join the Retail Banking division initially. Those starting on this programme will soon have the (34)____________ to work in other parts of the bank and can (35)____________ a varied and flexible working life

Example:

A budgetary B fiscal C financial D economic

0 A B C D

Example

21 A opened B entered C turned D become

22 A hold B do C keep D own

23 A career B catalogue C record D experience

24 A area B trade C record D market

25 A making B reaching C developing D heightening

26 A present B treat C deal D handle

27 A observing B attending C involving D staying

28 A services B goods C creations D abilities

29 A colleague B members C people D persons

30 A qualified B combined C fastened D linked

31 A main B vital C necessary D superior

32 A therefore B thus C provided D only

33 A succeed B realize C gain D overcome

34 A choice B chance C likelihood D probability

35 A forecast B believe C suppose D expect

PART FIVE

Section A
Questions 36-40

Read the text below about a special kind of competition.

In most of the lines 36-40 there is one extra word which does not fit. One or two lines, however, are correct.

If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.

If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

Examples:

0 The international Youth Skills Olympics is a vocational skills competition in

0 C O R R E C T

00 which the young people demonstrate their achievements in a range of areas.

00 T H E

36 The competition, which there is held every two years, is organized by the international

37 Training Organisation. All U.K. competitors qualify for the team by getting through

38 a tough national competition.Their backgrounds are vary from arts to sciences,

39 and students to the self-employed. Since they do not know which skill area they

40 will be tested in, they must to train for everything before the start of the competition.