Angličtina Section 1 (approximately 20 minutes) – Listening You will have 2 minutes at the end of the listening section to copy your answers to the answer sheet.

POSLECH JE K DISPOZICI NA WWW.SCIO.CZ/DOWNLOAD/SCIO-AJ-WEB-POSLECH.MP3 TEXT K ÚLOHÁM 1 AŽ 6 You will hear a text which is followed by several tasks. You will be provided time to look through the relevant tasks before you listen. You will hear the recording twice. Solve the tasks based solely on the information in the recording.

Austin Wierschke from Wisconsin, the fastest texter in America (www.nbcnwwyork.com/new/local/Fastest-Texter-Phone-Championship-New-York-City-165398346.html) 1.

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5.

Austin Wierschke plans on using the prize money to ______.

Austin’s training consisted of ______.

Another competitor, Kelly Barracato,

(A) (B) (C) (D)

______ Wierschke.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

get a gift for a colleague move to Times Square pay for his education travel around the U.S.

2. _____ people took part in the texting championship. (A) 6 (B) 11 (C) 17 (D) 50

500 different routines texting while flying using the Optimus Zip phone sending a lot of messages

4. Kent Augustine from Queens finished ______. (A) 1st (B) 2nd (C) 6th (D) 16th

(A) (B) (C) (D)

mentioned the qualities of practised texting with took a plane with went on a trip with

6. Anita Levine’s father finds texting to be a ______. (A) (B) (C) (D)

very difficult thing to do good discipline to compete in part of the new generation meaningless activity

You will hear a series of short unrelated extracts. There is one task for each extract. You will be provided time to read the relevant task before you listen. You will hear each extract twice. Solve the tasks based solely on the information in the recording. 7.

9.

You hear a train announcement.

You hear someone talking about the exploration of Mars.

According to the announcement, passengers travelling to Claydon or Stowmarket should leave the train ______.

Which of the following is not true?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

at Romford at Ipswich at London at Norwich

8. You overhear a conversation between Lea and her friend Ted.

10.

Where does the conversation take place? (A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) There used to be a lot more liquid water on the surface of Mars in the past than there is nowadays. (B) NASA has observed dark streaks on Mars, appearing seasonally, which are most likely flowing water. (C) The atmosphere of Mars makes it possible for liquid water to continually stay on its surface. (D) NASA has taken pictures of Mars in 2011. You overhear two friends, Jake and Amy, talking about Jake’s new dog.

at a golf course at a tennis club in a swimming pool at a soccer field

Why is Amy being rude about his dog when she sees it? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Because it is a rescued dog. Because it is very ugly. Because it has no name. Because of its weird collar.

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12.

You hear someone talking about the Fairphone project.

You hear part of a radio programme about cooking.

What is the main aim of this project?

What does the presenter say about lamb meat?

(A) to produce a smartphone so cheap that even people in Africa can afford to buy one (B) to make a shift towards a fairer way of producing electronics (C) to make a phone entirely out of recycled materials (D) to make sure all smartphones currently in use can be reused or recycled rather than thrown away

(A) (B) (C) (D)

It is very popular among people who listen to the show. It does not taste all that good. It contains more fat than pork meat. It is not prepared all too often.

Section 2 (25 minutes) – Reading Read the following text and solve the tasks based solely on the information in it.

TEXT K ÚLOHÁM 13 AŽ 18 Bangladeshi man missing for 23 years returns home Moslemuddin Sarkar, 52, arrived back in Dhaka on Tuesday, a day after being freed from a Pakistani jail with the help of the Red Cross. His family lost contact after Mr Sarkar left for India in search of work in 1989. Years later, he ended up in Pakistan, where he was arrested. He says he was beaten and tortured in his subsequent 15 years in prison. “I requested that embassy officials send me back to Bangladesh but no one listened to me,” he told the BBC. “I suffered a lot in the prison and was crying for help. But no one came to my rescue. Still I don’t understand why I was kept in jail for such a long time. At last, I am back with my family and I feel great.” There were emotional scenes when Mr Sarkar was welcomed by relatives at Dhaka airport, the BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Bangladesh. A younger brother, Julhas Uddin, told the AFP news agency that Mr Sarkar’s mother “passed out as he hugged her” after returning to his home village. “It was a heartbreaking scene. He could not control his tears for hours,” Julhas Uddin said. A dockworker at the port of Chittagong, Mr Sarkar says he illegally crossed the border to India in 1989 in search of better opportunities, without telling his family. “We searched for him for years and finally gave up hope believing he might have drowned in the sea. But our mother always believed that her son would return home one day,” Julhas Uddin said. In 1997, he was caught trying to enter Pakistan without valid travel documents, spending the next 15 years in prisons in Lahore and Karachi. He told the BBC he was completely cut off from the world during that time. “I went to Pakistan believing that I would get a better job there. But they caught me at the border,” he told AFP. “I wrote dozens of letters to my village address, but did not have any clue that they were never posted. At one stage I lost all hope of returning home.” His fate reportedly came to light when Pakistan sent a list of long-serving Bangladeshi prisoners to consular officials, who informed Mr Sarkar’s family. They in turn appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, who facilitated his release. (BBC:Bangladeshi man missing for 23 years returns home. BBC News online, 2012) 13.

14.

15.

Moslemuddin went to India in order to ______.

When Moslemuddin was in prison, he asked to be ______.

Moslemuddin’s mother ______ when he returned home.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) allowed to listen to Bangladeshi news (B) reunited with his family in Pakistan (C) taken to an embassy in Pakistan (D) transported home

(A) (B) (C) (D)

avoid getting arrested find employment travel to Pakistan visit his family

mourned died drowned fainted

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17.

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Moslemuddin ______ after returning to his village.

______ was convinced that one day Moslemuddin would come back.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

While Moslemuddin was in jail, he was ______ his correspondence being held up.

cried for a long time hugged all his neighbours organised a party wrote a story

His brother A dockworker One of his friends One of his parents

(A) (B) (C) (D)

disappointed by informed about suspicious of unaware of

Read the following text and solve the tasks based solely on the information in it.

TEXT K ÚLOHÁM 19 AŽ 27 You are going to read an article in which four people describe their various experiences related to beekeeping. For each of the questions below, choose from the people A–D. The people may be chosen more than once. A – Andrew I ordered my first package of bees that January and in April I was standing under a big oak tree as the club’s bees were offloaded from the pickup truck. They called my name to gather my package… this was real, this was happening. I was putting literally thousands of bees into my car – had I thought this through all the way? Are these the actions of a sane individual? On the drive home I drove slowly with the package of buzzing bees as my copilot, watching them closely after every curve or turn. Once home I sprayed the bees with a bit of water and, under the watchful eye of my mentor, began introducing them to their new hive, hands shaking. You basically pour them into your readied hive and they spill out by the thousands into their new home. They covered every inch of the hive and began investigating the home I had prepared for them. As they buzzed all around me I felt an overwhelming sense of something – calmness. B – Brad I started keeping bees two summers ago. My wife and I had moved to a duplex (with a yard!) the year before, and I started a vegetable garden. We didn’t get a very big yield that first year, so I thought “I know what I need – more pollinators!” Sadly, it turns out that our upstairs neighbour is violently allergic to bees, but by the time I found that out, I had two hives coming my way. Fortunately, I found a woman who lives about five miles from me who wanted bees in her yard, but didn’t have time to keep them herself. So now my hives live there, pollinating her garden (and terrorizing her son). C – Colin Installing the bees was the scary part – luckily I had a friend who already keeps bees with me to help. The bees came in a small cage with a can of sugar syrup, and a separate cage for the queen and a few attendants. Transportation couldn’t have been simpler – we just put the cages in the car and drove home. Once home we filled the feeders with sugar syrup – which I prepared the night before – and then pried open the cages. Once the cage was open we had to lift the queen cage out and place it in the hive, wedged between two frames. The cage is sealed with a plug of sugar which the other bees will slowly eat over the next week – eventually freeing the queen. The idea behind this gradual introduction is to make sure the bees are used to the queen’s smell before she is freed, helping ensure that they accept her as theirs. D – David It was the first monthly meeting of my local Bee Keepers Association. The Annual Honey show is part of this event and this year Yorkshire Beekeepers association had also been asked to provide a honey tasting table and honey sales for the public. To cut a long story short I decided to volunteer as I saw it as a good chance to help out and meet other beekeepers from Yorkshire and help educate the public about the importance of eating real local honey! (Mother Earth News [online], 2013. ApiNews [online], 2014. Tree Hugger [online], 2009. Yorkshire Bees [online], 2013.) 19.

20.

Which beekeeper contributed to an event without being paid for it because it was for a good cause?

Which beekeeper keeps his bees on somebody else’s property?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

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21. Which beekeeper wasn’t sure if driving with a package of bees in the car wasn’t a crazy thing to do? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

22. Which beekeeper felt quite serene while watching his bees once they were in their new home? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

23. Which beekeeper used a special device to make sure the bees and their queen got on? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

24. Which beekeeper originally got bees to improve the yield of his crops? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

25. Which beekeeper had to wait for a quarter of a year since ordering his bees to start beekeeping? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

26. Which beekeeper had to change his plans for safety reasons? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

27. Which beekeeper was keen on meeting other people who keep bees in the same region? (A) (B) (C) (D)

Andrew Brad Colin David

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Section 3 (20 minutes) – Use of English Konverzace a slovní zásoba In the following tasks, choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete the gap or the most suitable reply to the question. 28.

32.

35.

What he said to her was mean and spiteful.

Choose the most appropriate question:

What is the most likely subject of a newspaper article with the following heading?

In the context of the sentence above, the word “mean” is closest in meaning to ______. (A) (B) (C) (D)

incomprehensible average outstanding unkind

A: ______ B: I’m a doctor. A: Wow, that was my dream job when I was little!

29.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

The President condemned the financial reform enacted by his predecessor.

Choose the most appropriate reply:

In the context of the sentence above, the word “condemned” is closest in meaning to ______. (A) (B) (C) (D)

upheld criticized applauded described

30. Where would you most likely hear the following phrase? “Single or return?” (A) (B) (C) (D)

in a restaurant at a clothes shop in a library at a train station

31.

How do you do? What do you do? What are you doing? What have you done?

“Elected by secret ballot.” (A) (B) (C) (D)

politics a sports event an economic crisis a new invention

33. A: It’s really chilly outside! B: ______ (A) (B) (C) (D)

I’ll wear a coat then. I’m allergic to peppers. So I must turn the fridge off. Yes, I really like summer.

34. What should you do if someone has a stroke? (A) suggest that he/she should see a psychologist (B) congratulate him/her for being so lucky (C) seek medical help immediately (D) consider lending him/her some money

Choose the most appropriate expression to complete the gap: A: I tried to convince him, but he did not change his mind. B: I know. He is so ______. (A) (B) (C) (D)

stubborn silent sensitive sober

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Komplexní cvičení Fill in the numbered gaps in the following short text with the most suitable word or phrase from the options offered. A hyphen in the options means that no word should be filled in.

TEXT K ÚLOHÁM 36 AŽ 41 India Poll A survey of nineteen __(36)__ and emerging countries suggests that India ranks the worst for women, coming even lower than Saudi Arabia. The poll looked at a range of factors, from women’s education and health care to violence against women. India scored poorly because of such practices as under-age marriage and domestic violence. The country’s Domestic Violence Act, __(37)__ seven years ago, was described as progressive. But gender violence fuelled by social __(38)__ against girls does persist, especially in low income families. Some people __(39)__ surprised that India ranks lower than Saudi Arabia where women are not even __(40)__ to drive and have not had the chance to exercise the __(41)__ to vote yet. In India, the status of women is closely linked to wealth and class. There are plenty of well-educated, professional women who enjoy personal freedoms, but their experience stands in marked contrast to the lives of rural women. (McGivering J.: Poll finds India worst for women BBC online) 36. (A) (B) (C) (D)

abundant developed average substantial

38. (A) (B) (C) (D)

harm prejudice humiliation rejection

40. (A) (B) (C) (D)

allowed permit forbidden capable

37. (A) (B) (C) (D)

was passed passing passed has passed

39. (A) (B) (C) (D)

may be might could have shouldn’t be

41. (A) (B) (C) (D)

option possibility act right

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TEXT K ÚLOHÁM 42 AŽ 47 X-ray reveals drunk tourist sleeping on baggage belt at Rome airport A Norwegian tourist __(42)__ caught on X-ray sleeping on a moving baggage belt at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. The unnamed 36-year-old man reportedly climbed over one of the check-in desks and __(43)__ asleep on the belt that takes luggage to be loaded on to planes. When the belt started moving, he travelled for around 50m. He apparently remained asleep after staff spotted him in the X-ray machine, stopped the belt and __(44)__ police. The tourist, who appeared to have __(45)__ heavily, will now face charges in relation to the incident according to Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper. The incident has raised questions about security at the airport, but a police spokesperson told the paper that the man could not have got through to secure areas of the airport. “There is a security system – a sort __(46)__ roll-up blind – which can only be opened by the member of staff who loads the baggage,” the officer said. “The Norwegian could have carried __(47)__ going round the main belt but he could never have ended up in sensitive areas of the airport.” (www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19206924) 42. (A) (B) (C) (D)

has has been have had

44. (A) (B) (C) (D)

accused affirmed alerted astonished

46. (A) (B) (C) (D)

for of in to

43. (A) (B) (C) (D)

fallen falling fell felt

45. (A) (B) (C) (D)

been drinking to drink drink drinking

47. (A) (B) (C) (D)

off out on over

Gramatika Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with the most suitable word or phrase from the options offered. A hyphen in the options means that no word should be filled in. 48.

51.

Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt the cathedral after the fire, ______?

If I ______ more time studying, my results would be better.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

did he does he didn’t he wasn’t he

(A) (B) (C) (D)

spend spent would spend would spent

52.

49. How ______ you like to have your money changed? In tens?

He is just so annoying! I can’t put ______ with his behaviour anymore.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

could are can would

on out in up

50.

53.

Tell me about London, who was ______ most famous artist of ______ city?

She was watching a football match when he suddenly ______ the door.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

a / the – / the the / the the / a

had opened has opened opened was opened

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54.

55.

Ladies and gentlemen, please, ______ attention to what I say!

I was quite afraid ______ the exam.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

pay sell spend offer

of failing to get failed having fail about failing

Word formation Use the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to form a new word that fits the gap. Please write neatly in capital letters. Example: The Mona Lisa is one of the most _____ paintings in the world. (FAME) F

A

M

O

U

S 59.

56. My brother got ______ because I called him a fool. (OFFENSE) 57. John is totally ______ to his grades, he just does not care about them at all! (DIFFER)

Your brother is very ______ – he keeps telling everyone what to do all the time. (CONTROL) 60. The school is some 4 kilometers away and we have only five minutes left to get there – I think it’s very ______ that we will make it on time. (DOUBT)

58. Calling your teacher an idiot was very ______ of you, you should be ashamed! (RESPECT)

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