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IEEf?+ffiIfiEfff{n What reasons do peopte have for 4 Oo the Use of Engtish exam tasl<.
suddenly leaving home and starting a new life abroad?
2 Make sentences about the photos using the words in the box.
Complete the text. Write one word onty in each gap.
load (v) possessions precariously balanced ramp
For such a small seabird, the sooty shearwater has an ambitious
removalvan stack (v) strap (n) take r- the world. 2- its diminutive size, it thinks
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nothing of flying from New Zealand to Alaska pursuit of
3 Do the Speaking exam task. an endless summer.
For years, ornithologists have l<nown that sooty shearwaters
breed off the coasts of New Zealand and Chile in the'southern
hemisphere, and then cross the equator to the rich summer
Compare and contrast the photos. Answer the questions a-
feeding grounds of the North Pacific, stretch from
about each photo. California to Japan. Now a study has shown thatthis epic feat
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performed over a single breeding season, with individual
birds travelling as far 6- 62, 400 km in just one year.
It is the longest migration route undertaken by individual
animals that has been recorded by scientists, according 7
Scott Shaffel a research biologist at the Unlversity of California,
Santa Cruz, who led the team behind the study.'The B
bird species known that e rival the migrations of the sooty
shearwater would be the arctic tern, which breeds in the Arctic
and migrates to Antarctica,' Dr Shaffer said. 'But we don t know
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they do that in a single season, because nobody's ever
tracked them"'
IGEf?tfltJllnlEfi-{,ll Read the sentences in the Listening
exam task. What do you think the tistening is about?
6 $b z.zz Do the Listening exam task.
Listen to part of a radio programme. Choose the correct
option(s) to complete the sentences. At least one of the
options is always correct, and sometimes both options
may be correct. I
1 Humpback whates
A traveI further in one go than any other anima[.
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B are born in warm waters off the coast of Central
America.
2 The markings on the whates' taits enabted the
researchers to
A identify the same whale in entirely different locations.
B identify which calves betonged to which mothers.
3 Baby h um pback whales
7 Why are the people moving, do you thinl<? A spend the first year of their lives in warm water.
2 Where do you thinl( they are going? B sometimes travel thousands of l<itometres from the
3 How are their experiences different? breeding ground soon afterthey are born.
4 The researchers employed a satellite
A to establish how warm the water is where the baby
whates are born.
Completing a text with appropriate words B to track the whates' journey across the equator.
o Most of the missing words in this type of tasl< witt be 5 One result of the research is that scientists now know
'grammar words' (artictes, auxiliary verbs, pronouns, A which type of whales migrates the furthest.
prepositions, etc.). B why humpback whales travelled north across the
r Do not write more than one word in each gap. eq u ato r.
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