First Certificate Exam

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distant

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remote

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distinct

TWO CREATURES OF THE PAST – MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS

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the climate at that time which (15) ..... to their disappearance.

mammoth (12) ..... suggest that it was a particular (13) ..... of over-hunting byhumans, and (14) ..... in

We do not know why mastodons (11) ..... extinct. However, computer studies of the decrease in

mammoths mainly ate grass on the plains, mastodons (10) ..... to eat twigs and leaves.

relatives called the mastodon. Like mammoths, mastodons may also have had a hairy coat, but (9) .....

thousands of years earlier, in the woodlands of eastern North America, livedanother of the elephant’s

To most of us, mammoths are probably the most (8) ..... of the elephant’s extinct relatives, but

good use, protecting the mammoths’ young from other animals, and brushing away snow.

biggest teeth of any known creature, some (6) ..... a length of five metres. These tusks were (7) ..... to

mammoth’s tusks – its two enormous teeth – out of the ice to sell them.Mammoth tusks are the

immediately ran (4) ..... in terror, but several days later he (5) ..... the courage to return and cut the

ice, he could (2) ..... see the shape of a massive, hairy mammoth, apparently (3) ..... at him. He

walking along the banks of the River Lena in Siberia (1) ….. a startling discovery. Peering into a wall of

15,000 years ago people painted pictures of them on cavewalls. Then, astonishingly, in 1799, a man

The elephant has some (0) ..... relatives called mammoths, which lived in the Stone Age. More than

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Example:

Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

For questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
There is an example at the beginning (0).

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PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISH

Part 1 (Questions 1–15)

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DEVELOPMENTS IN UNDERWATER DIVING

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(29) .......... rid of these tubes and carry (30) .......... ownair with them in cylinders.

the surface through tubes. Divers gained even (28) .......... freedom of movement when they could

up (27) .......... a leather jacket with a metal helmet over the head into which air was pumped down from

However, (26) .......... divers want to move freely underwater, they require a suit. Early suits were made

for underwater work, (25) .......... as buildingthe foundations of bridges.

supply of air coming through leather tubes. Something similar, made of steel, is (24) .......... use today

was a small wooden room with an open bottom, glass windows at the top to (23) .......... in light, and a

In 1717, the first practical diving machine, or ‘diving bell’ (22) .......... it was called, was invented. This

It was not (21) .......... the...