Key to Reading booklet

B-Retirement, boomer-style

A. a b c b b   

B. a a b b c a b

A- Spain's "Terrible And Inhumane" Situation Prompts End To Evictions

10.-     declined to comment on the eviction

8.-       but I hope that soon we will be able

9.-       the family was due to be evicted

1.-       even the bailout-avoiding prime minister

5.-       because of charges and interest payments

3.-       as the government devises measures

4.-       the most vulnerable families affected by the evictions

2.-       to evict her

6.-       without increasing the strain on lenders

7.-       is set to miss his budget goals for the next three years

1. Steve Fosset   (7 items)

  

KEY:  5-4-1—7-6-3-2

 

SCOTLAND’S REFERENDUM

  

                                                                                                                      Key:  A:  542136   and B.  aacbc

 

3. Borrowing and Lending in China  

 

KEY: 10-7-3-6-8   5-1-9-4-2

Postcard from... Ubeda

More than three-quarters of a century after it was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, and after 18 years of restoration, a statue attributed to Michelangelo is set to make its return to the small Andalusian town of Ubeda.
The statue, known as Saint John the Baptist Child and depicting him as a young boy – and dubbed “San Juanito” locally – was smashed by anti-clerical rioters in August 1936 and only 17 fragments were found.
It might be thought that a small Andalusian town is not the most likely location for Michelangelo. But Ubeda, dubbed the Renaissance capital of Andalusia and a Unesco World Heritage site, contains a huge number of churches, palaces and aristocratic houses from that era. The statue was brought to the town by locally-born Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles I.
The 17 fragments, 40 per cent of the original – for years locals would joke the head was to be found in a local garage – were sent to conservation specialists in Florence, the Opficio delle Pietre Dure, in 1995. And after nearly two decades of complex work, the 130cm-high (4ft 3in)  San Juanito is reported to be all but ready to be exhibited, first in Florence in June, before returning to Ubeda.
 

EASY DOES IT. Read the text and choose the best option.                               (___ /5)

1C   2B   3C   4A   5B

Vocabulary. Choose the best meaning for the following words as they are used in the text. The number of paragraph is given in brackets.                                      (___ /5)

Eg.   ease up (p.4)            a. relax         b. make something easy    c. show self-confidence

1)    restless (p. 11)        a. disturbed            b. unsettled            c. not sleeping a wink

2)    wimps (p. 13)                  a. employees          b. wealthy people    c. the weak and cowardly

3)    burnout (p. 16)       a. mental collapse    b. economic crisis    c. expansion failure

4)    feasible (p. 18)       a. likely                  b. fearless              c. possible

5)    hook…on(p.27)       a. engage               b. deal with             c. put …off