DU KÍCH
ENTRY TEST

Exercise 1. Listen and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

• Speaker 1: Good morning, you're through to the (1) drama department. How can I help you today?
• Speaker 2: Hello, I’m interested in enrolling my (2) in your classes. I heard about them from a friend.
• Speaker 1: That’s brilliant. We have several (3) . For an eight-year-old, the Tuesday evening class is best. It’s held from 5:30 to (4) .
• Speaker 2: Right you are. And what about the (5) ?
• Speaker 1: There is an (6) joining fee of £15. Oh, let me just double-check the latest figures on my system... Ah, sorry, it was changed recently. It’s actually £14 per person for the year.
• Speaker 2: That’s fine. My name is Maggie.
• Speaker 1: Could you spell the surname for me?
• Speaker 2: Of course, it’s (7)
We live at (8) Arbuthnot Drive. That’s A-R-B-U-T-H-N-O-T.
• Speaker 1: Thank you. And a mobile number?
• Speaker 2: It’s (9) .
• Speaker 1: Perfect, the first session starts on the 17th of (10) .

Exercise 2. Listen and choose the correct answers.

2.1. Which THREE activities will participants be able to do on the culinary tour?

2.2. Which TWO activities can participants choose to do on Monday morning?

Exercise 1. Find all the paraphrased versions of these words, ‘goal; help; develop; new’.

The researchers plan eventually to survey the entire borough of Brooklyn. ‘We want to get to a more specific and detailed description of what that looks like’, says Jeffrey Heehs, who leads the project. He hopes it will help residents find fresh food in urban areas where the stores sell mostly packaged snacks or fast food, areas otherwise known as food deserts. The aim of the project is also to assist government officials in assessing food availability, and in forming future policies about what kind of food should be sold and where.

Exercise 2. Choose ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

On many trees, the leaves that are the reddest are those on the side of the tree which gets most sun. Not only that, but the red is brighter on the upper side of the leaf. It has also been recognised for decades that the best conditions for intense red colours are dry, sunny days and cool nights, conditions that nicely match those that make leaves susceptible to excess light. And finally, trees such as maples usually get much redder the more North you travel in the northern hemisphere.

Exercise 3. Choose TRUE, FALSE, or NOT GIVEN.

In the botanical world, pepper belongs to a genus of plants called Piper. This genus was created in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist whose system for classifying plants is still in use today. He placed seventeen species in the Piper genus and probably used the ancient Greek name for black pepper, Peperi, as the basis for the group. The pepper berries, which grow in clusters and dangle from the vines, are picked by hand when they are ready for harvesting, which usually begins two or three years after the vine is first planted. Black pepper is picked when the berries are still green, while white pepper is picked later when the berries have turned from green to red.