Text for items from 1 through 5.
1 Two friends were camping together. Their names were Alex and
Robert. Robert was very lazy. The first evening of their holiday, Alex said to
Robert:
4 — ‘Here’s some money. Go and buy the meat.’— ‘I’m too tired’, answered Robert. ‘You go.’ So Alex went to buy the meat.
— When he came back, he said to Robert, ‘Now, here’s the meat. Please,
7 cook it.’ But Robert replied, ‘No, I’m not good at cooking. You do it.’ So
Alex cooked the meat.
— Then Alex said to Robert, ‘Cut the bread,’ but Robert answered ‘I don’t
10 want to,’ so Alex cut the bread.
— Then he said to Robert, ‘Go and get some water, please.’
— ‘No I don’t want to get my clothes dirty,’ Robert answered, so Alex got
13 the water.
— At last Alex said, ‘the meal’s ready. Come and eat it.’
— ‘Well, I’ll do that,’ answered Robert. ‘I don’t like saying “no” all the time.’
Adapted from L. A. Hill. Elementary stories for reproduction. Tokyo: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 56.
Taking into consideration the text together with its picture, judge the following items.
1 Robert uses serious arguments to justify the real motives for his excuses.2 The last remark made by Robert presents an amusing, unexpected reaction which shows the comic irony of the text.
3 Robert is the guy standing up and Alex is bending on his knees.
4 The sentence ‘“I’m too tired’, answered Robert” (L.5) can be correctly rewritten as Robert said that he was too tired.
5 Supposing that Robert always behaves as shown in the text above, he would probably
A participate in voluntary work against our planet pollution.
B take part in public campaigns to fight against hunger and poverty.
C read books aloud for children in hospitals.
D look for personal advantages from social programmes without having to give something back.
6 What is the main message of
the photo?
A Those who contaminate
their lungs pollute the
atmosphere.
B Those who pollute the
atmosphere contaminate themselves.
C Those who do not contaminate
their lungs do not pollute the atmosphere.
D Those who wear masks do
not contaminate themselves.
Based on the photo, judge the following items.
7 The photo suggests that we
must be critical about actions
that endanger life on
Earth.
8 The girl in the photo is
wearing a mask to call people’s
attention to heart diseases.
