társalKODÓ C1 MONOLINGUAL WRITTEN TEST

KJE Language Examination Centre

MONOLINGUAL EXAM

Monolingual Written test

C1

ENGLISH

Exam papers Maximum Required Time allowed Dictionary

score minimum
Use of English 12 points none

Reading 1 16 points 65 minutes NOT allowed

12 points
Reading 2 12 points

Writing 1 20 points
16 points 100 minutes allowed
Writing 2 20 points

Total: 80 points -- 165 minutes --

Kodolányi János Egyetem

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1. Use of English
Read the text below. Some words are missing from the text. Choose the correct answer from the
options (A, B, C or D) for each gap (1-15) in the text. Mark your answers with an X in the table on
Answer Sheet 1. An example (0) has been given for you.

The Education of an American Tourist

The shiny consumerism of Dubai is more unsettling than the sight of burqas 1 and mosques.

Where are the camels? What time is the belly-dancing show? I’d like to think that questions like
these didn’t (0)___B____ to me on my first visit to the Middle East, that I was somehow more
(1)________ than the typical narrow-minded American tourist, but unfortunately that wasn’t the
case. When I first visited the region it was all very odd - I felt (2)________, but not for the reasons
you might expect. It wasn’t because of the lack of camels or belly dancers, or because of seeing
women in burqas and wearing Chanel sunglasses. I was a little bit (3)________ by the Middle East
as it was all so shiny and new, no traces of history to be seen anywhere.

After that first trip I returned to the Middle East many times. When I was (4)________ a Middle
Eastern fashion magazine I (5)________, I lived in Kuwait for six months. I also traveled to Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and, most often, to Dubai. Over the years I have (6)________ many strange (to me)
and interesting things in the Middle East. I’ve seen a woman in burqa eating without removing her
veil, deftly slipping her silverware back and forth behind the black (7)________ of the burqa. I’ve
had dinner with a sheik in Dubai who wears YSL2 suits but (8)________ sit at a table where alcohol
is being served.

In moments like these I am aware of myself as an outsider, a Westerner, an American. I don’t

always fully understand the motivations behind what I see in Dubai, but neither (9)________
rushed to make a judgment, just because I don’t understand everything. I see it as my problem,
not theirs, if (10)________ it is a problem at all.

Of course, there are some fundamental differences between me and “them”, but there are
probably more fundamental similarities. (11)________ their cultural or religious ideas might be,
the people I’ve met are primarily interested in (12)________ a living, falling in love and having a
good time, pretty much like what my friends in the United States are focused on. It’s true that
many people in the Middle East achieve those goals in a different way than I might, but I’m not
sure how much I have in common with my fellow Americans in the Bible Belt3, either.

These days I’m more surprised by all the new developments that are going up than anything as
ordinary as a burqa. Doha and Dubai (13)________ giant construction sites, as real estate
developers race to (14)________ quickly increasing demand. Everywhere you look familiar brands
are there - Nike (15)________, Benetton shirts, an explosion of denim on people of all ages. It’s
fair to say that, after Allah, globalization is God.

1
a burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic countries for the purpose of hiding a woman's body and
face when in public
2
YSL is a luxury fashion house
3
Bible Belt is a term for an area of the United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of
the culture.
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Strangely, after all these years I still haven't spied a camel or seen a belly-dancing show. Maybe on
my next trip.
(www.newsweek.com)

0. A. happen B. occur C. turn up D. seem

1. A. enlightened B. eased C. improved D. humiliated
2. A. unacceptable B. uneasy C. troublesome D. provoking
3. A. gone off B. grown up C. brushed up D. put off
4. A. getting up B. bringing up C. setting up D. taking up
C. was to have been
5. A. would be edited B. was about editing D. was to edit
edited
6. A. promoted B. raised C. encountered D. acquainted

7. A. structure B. clothing C. dress D. fabric

8. A. is reluctant B. won't C. is unwilling D. was keen
9. A. shall I feel B. I do feel C. do I feel D. I am likely to feel
10. A. indeed B. one sees C. to say that D. considered as
11. A. Whatever B. However C. Whichever D. Whatsoever

12. A. earning B. owning C. achieving D. reaching

13. A. remind B. mirror C. remember D. resemble
14. A. complete B. achieve C. reach D. meet
15. A. hikers B. joggers C. sneakers D. sprinters

2. Reading 1
Read the text below and then read the gapped summary that follows. Your task is to fill the gaps
(1-8) according to what the text says with one word per line. Short forms like “isn't” or “don't”
count as two words. Write your answers on the lines on Answer Sheet 1.

Full text:

Airline Security

It was Christmas Day, three months after the trauma of September 11, and a planeload of
exhausted, slightly nervous passengers were going home at the last minute for the holidays, on
American Airlines flight 363 from Baltimore to Dallas. At the check-in desk, an Arab-American was
asked a series of questions and, in the end, he was not allowed to board the plane and was left at
the gate. This has happened many times on domestic flights in the United States since September
11, but this time it was different. The Arab-American, Walied Shater, was, in fact, a secret

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serviceman on his way to guard President George Bush at the "Western White House" in
Crawford, Texas. This meant big trouble.

In a discussion about this incident on American TV, an expert used the two words "racial profiling"
- one of the most controversial issues in contemporary America. The President said he would be
furious if it turned out that Shater was a victim of this practice, in which citizens are selected for
special attention because of their skin colour, name or religion. American Airlines said Shater had
not been refused permission to board the flight because of his Arab-American identity. Instead,
the troubled airline (which lost two planes on September 11) published critical accounts of his
behaviour, describing him as angry and aggressive. He had filled in a form which gives permission
for government security officers to carry guns on planes, but had filled it in incorrectly twice. His
identity was eventually confirmed by the Secret Service, but he had become so aggressive by then
that airline officials thought it was best to leave him behind.

Shater has hired lawyers to demand an apology and to force a change in the airline's security
measures. The lawyers have gone on television to deny the claims that the presidential bodyguard
had behaved unprofessionally. They say it was the pilot who was confrontational. They say that
there had been no problem with the gun-carrying forms until the pilot became aware of the
passenger's Arab-American identity and a flight attendant found a book on Arab history among his
possessions.

It is a fact that Arab-Americans and people with Muslim names have been subjected to much more
attention than other passengers on flights since September 11. There have been many cases of
people being left off planes because the flight crew and the passengers were worried about their
Middle Eastern appearance. One of the key items on the "new security" checklist is checking the
passenger list for Islamic names. American Airlines' claim that Shater's Arab-American identity had
nothing to do with the pilot's decision looks very dubious. It is hard to imagine the same situation
happening to a blond secret serviceman possessing a book about the American Civil War, but the
airline insists it would have acted in an identical manner.

It is possible to argue that there might be a significant security benefit in paying particular
attention to passengers who fit a certain profile. On the other hand, the role of a Briton, Richard
Reid, a Muslim with a non-Muslim name, in the shoe-bomb attempt on an American Airlines flight
before Christmas was a clear reminder that the assailants in the next attack may not conform to
the stereotype.

If there is clearly a significant benefit to using ethnic profiling in security screening, there could be
further discussion of how to balance security and the civil rights of those people who are
screened. These are important issues but they are currently being avoided because the phrase
"racial profiling", usually associated with redneck cops stopping black motorists for questioning, is
politically sensitive.
(www.guardian.co.uk)

Gapped Summary:

The article is about the case of Walied Shater, an Arab-American personal bodyguard of the US
President, who was denied (1)__________ to board a flight from Baltimore to Dallas on Christmas

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Day 2001. The incident was followed by a news media uproar in which two parties seemed to
emerge, both revolving around the same controversial issue.
Shater claims it was a case of (2)________ _________; American Airlines maintains that Shater's
(3)__________ paperwork and subsequent (4)__________, which might have endangered a whole
plane, lead to the (5)__________.
The ensuing row has revealed the extreme sensitivity of the airline industry in regard to
(6)__________ since the events of September 11. It has also divided those people who believe
racial profiling is a legitimate security tool that might have (7)__________ from the point of view
of security and those who think (8)________ _________ have been violated because of the
various screening measures introduced.
The article concludes by saying that a solution that would appeal to both parties will be hard to
find as political factors throw in difficulties in dealing with the issue.

3. Reading 2
Read the text below. After the text you will find six questions or unfinished statements about the
text, each with three suggested answers or ways of finishing. You must choose the one which you
think fits best according to the text. Mark your answers with an X in the table on Answer Sheet 1.

The Town without News

What happens when a place loses its newspaper? Most of the 80 or so local papers that have shut
down in Britain since the beginning of last year were the second - or third-strongest publications in
their markets. But the weekly Bedworth Echo, which published its last issue on 10th July, was the
only paper dedicated to the town's news.

A small former mining settlement in the Midlands, Bedworth also lacks a radio station. Although it
will still be covered by newspapers focused on its bigger neighbours, it is now a town without
news. It will not be the last. With a few exceptions local newspapers are declining quickly. The
main reason more local papers have not collapsed, says Paul Zwillenberg, a media consultant, is
that they have good operating profits.

An advertising slump has hit local newspapers much harder than national papers or other media.
The growing reach of national brands like Auto Trader means that local papers have lost their grip
on property and car advertising. Most painful has been the disappearance of job ads. Public-sector
recruitment has shifted mostly to official websites in the past few years, and recession has eroded
the rest. As it declined, the Echo withdrew from its office in the middle of town and trimmed its
coverage of local affairs. By the end it was hardly an effective watchdog. “We used to nearly write
the stories for the journalists,” says Richard Chattaway, a county councillor. Not surprisingly, the
newspaper's circulation more than halved between 2001 and 2008.

Something is nonetheless being lost with its departure. The Echo carried reports of school plays,
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reinforced a sense of community. “This is a poor town, and not computer literate,” says Anne
Tippett of the Civic Hall, an arts centre. Bedworth has no prominent blog. Indeed, local politicians
appear to be just coming around to e-mail as a means of mass communication. Even if online
sources of local news existed, they would not reach many of those who relied on the local paper.
The Echo was read by skilled manual workers and by the middle-aged and elderly. Claire Enders of
Enders Analysis Office notes that the people who most need information about local goings-on are
the immobile old and the poor, for whom the news that a local clinic is about to close can be vital.
They are the people least likely to have access to broadband.

Yet alternatives are emerging. As its newspaper declined, Bedworth's politicians worked to set up
local residents' groups to deliver views and information. Their meetings are advertised by means
of leaflets posted through people's doors. The local borough council delivers an increasingly
professional-looking newsletter. So do local churches. Oddly, a problem that is high-tech in origin
has strengthened a low-tech form of communication. To an extent, the problem of local news is
generational - a result of the difficulty of adapting to new technology. As more newspapers fail, it
is likely that online local-news outfits will strengthen.
An intriguing experiment is already under way. In northeast England, Trinity Mirror has set up
“Gazette Live”, a mix of professional news and user-generated content. The latter is written with
the help of local chatterboxes. At the moment local sites tend to be filled with discussions of town
fetes and the next music night at the village club. As local papers fail, we may learn their real value
was less a check on politicians than simply a forum for casual conversation - a place where a town
can talk to itself.
(www.businessweek.com)

1. According to the text, …

a) Bedworth Echo was the sole newspaper reporting on Bedworth news.
b) Paul Zwillenberg says some local newspapers have survived because they have
negligible earnings.
c) Both a) and b) are false.

2. The accessibility of ‘Auto Trader’ …

a) has contributed to the disappearance of the Echo.
b) has proved that advertising in national newspapers has been much less successful.
c) meant that local newspapers had more advertisers.

3. As a result of falling revenues, the ‘Bedworth Echo’ …

a) reduced its news service of local affairs.
b) started to write the stories for the journalists.
c) decreased the number of copies that are sold each day.

4. According to the article, …

a) all the locals think that the Internet can substitute the local newspaper perfectly.
b) e-mails from politicians get to as many people as the newspaper did.
c) the closure of Bedworth Echo has damaged the local sense of belonging.

5. Which is TRUE according to the article?

a) In “Gazette Live” political issues are prohibited.
b) Claire Elders says that the local clinic is about to close.

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c) The function of local newspapers was to offer room for small talk.

6. What conclusion does the article have?

a) Local newspapers talk to themselves, they do not communicate with others.
b) The value of local newspapers was that they gave people room to exchange ideas.
c) The new local websites will contain news but will not contain discussion forums.

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4. WRITING 1 – Essay

Write an argumentative essay of 190-210 words based on the statement in italics below. You will
have to include all the content points in your essay. Write 2 or 3 ideas to support each content
point. You may use a dictionary.

Please DO NOT write more than 210 words.

It is old-fashioned to get married.

 if two people love each other they do not need a marriage certificate
 to prove that you are serious you have to marry your sweetheart
 your opinion

________________________________________________________________________________

5. WRITING 2 – Informal E-mail

Write an informal e-mail to your English friend. You have to include all the content points that are
given below. Write 2 or 3 ideas to support each content point. Write 190-210 words. You may use
a dictionary.

Please DO NOT write more than 210 words.

You are a Hungarian person and you want to write about a new initiative in Hungarian school
canteens according to which only healthy lunches can be given to schoolchildren.

Write about

 why you think this change has been introduced

 what results you expect from the programme
 how the initiative could be made more popular among the schoolchildren

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ANSWER SHEET 1

1. Use of English (The Education of an American Tourist)

A B C D A B C D
0 X 8
1 9
2 10
3 11
4 12
5 13
6 14
7 15

2. Reading 1 (Airline Security)

1. ______________
2. ______________ ______________
3. ______________
4. ______________
5. ______________
6. ______________
7. ______________
8. ______________ ______________
3. Reading 2 (The Town without News)

A B C
1
2
3
4
5
6

1. Use of English: Achieved score: -3= Required minimum:

Maximum score: 15 – 3 = 12 points none
2. Reading 1: Achieved score: x2 Required minimum:
Maximum score: 8 x 2 = 16 points 12 points
3. Reading 2: Achieved score: x2
Maximum score: 6 x 2 = 12 points
Total:

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KEY:

1. Use of English (The Education of an American Tourist)

A B C D A B C D
0 X 8 X
1 X 9 X
2 X 10 X
3 X 11 X
4 X 12 X
5 X 13 X
6 X 14 X
7 X 15 X

2. Reading 1 (Airline Security)

1. permission
2. racial profiling/ racial discrimination
3. incorrect/ inaccurate/ faulty/ false/ wrong/ bad
4. behaviour/ aggression/ aggressiveness/ actions
5. refusal/ decision/ measure/ action
6. security/ Muslims/ Arab-Americans/ Islam/ terrorism/ terrorists
7. benefits
8. civil liberties/ civil rights/ human rights

3. Reading 2 (The Town without News)

A B C
1 X
2 X
3 X
4 X
5 X
6 X

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