Sector TLO

Examen toelatingsonderzoek in het vak engels;
studiejaar 1993/1994

datum: 25 juni 1993
tijd: 09.00 - 10.30 uur
Docent: J.H. Kokhuis

Toegestane hulpmiddelen: Het gebruik van woordenboeken is toegestaan.
Waardering van de verschillende opgaven: Het totaal aantal invulitems is 100, hetgeen 100 punten oplevert = cijfer 10.

Dit examen bestaat uit 2 teksten, waaruit woorden zijn weggelaten of 3 alternatieven zijn gegeven. Het is de bedoeling het betreffende nummer met één (engels) woord op te schrijven op het proefwerkblad. Indien er meer woorden zijn gegeven, moet er één gekozen worden. Indien door een kandidaat meer woorden worden opgeschreven, wordt alleen het eerste in aanmerking genomen. Voor spellingsfouten wordt een punt in mindering gebracht.
Lees eerst de gehele tekst en vul dan in. Als er geen keuze gemaakt kan worden ga dan door, later kan het atijd nog duidelijker worden.

1. cloze test

THE INDY

New School blues
For those starting at a new school, the first week produces a crop of terrors. Here’s how to cope with them.

Indy reader Steve Jones started at a new school this time last year. The place was different. The people were different. Everything was different.
Looking back on it all, he can (1) ..... how he should have tackled it. “(2) ....... was much too worried,” says Steve. “I (3) ........ too serious and I tended to (4) ...... things get on top of me. I reacted (5) ....... getting uptight or panicky.”
Steve is looking (6) ....... to the new school year. With the (7) ....... of hindsight, he can offer this advice (8) ..... newcomers: “Let things come to you. Take (9) ...... day at a time and expect things (10) ...... happen slowly. Don’t let your imagination run (11) ...... with you. Keep calm!”
Even teachers (you won’t (12) ...... this!) find starting a new school (13)....... collywobbling occasion. We spoke to Dick Teague of Castlefield School (14) ........ Dorchester. “I don’t suppose we feel any different (15)......... any of the students.”
“Probably the one (16) ....... you dread above all others is saying (17) ...... stupid in front of lots of other (18) ........ and looking a complete fool. “
Educational psychologist Peter Kendel (19) ...... there are two main problems: “The physical (20) ...... of a new school and the making (21)...... new friends.”
A change of place or (22) ..... new timetable is difficult to get used (23) ........ . If the change is from primary to secondary (24) ....... , children will suddenly have more than one (25) ....... to answer to.
Studies show that the (26) ........ fear is not knowing the layout of (27)...... school. Not knowing where the toilet is (28)...... be a great worry for some people. (29) ........ others for directions may make you feel (30)..... . It shows everybody that you’re new. (31)...... no friends is also traumatic. It is frightening (32)...... be alone. A pupil who is constantly (33)....... himself or herself may become the target (34)...... bullying or teasing due to their not (35)....... in.
In some cases pupils avoid going to (36)...... altogether, preferring to play truant rather than (37)...... up to adjustment.
The first few weeks (38)..... crucial and missing them will only make (39)........ worse. It will reduce your courage to (40)....... point where you may never want to face (41)...... to the challenge of starting afresh.
Jessica Asher and Charles Cowling.



2. Cloze test

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
WEEKEND

Born again on a Harley

Tony Gearing tells how ‘returnee’ bikers have given the US firm a boost.

Some 1,800 American Harley-Davidson motorcycles will be sold in Britain this year (1991). That would be pretty small beer for the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers. But for Harley, makers of the manufactured easy-rider, it is a remarkable turnaround.
Only eight years ago Harley-Davidson, the sole (1)living /making/ surviving US motorcycle manufacturer, sold just 78 bikes in (2)....... UK. The Milwaukee factory was unsettled by a change (3)...... ownership and a reputation for unreliability and (4)...... paintwork had slaughtered sales.
One “Bros”, as traditional (5)..... owners of the hairy kind are called, (6)...... me: “It wasn’t a Harley if it started (7)...... time.” Luckily he was something of a (8)....... mechanic who could fix the nuts (9)...... his Knucklehead or the pistons on his Panhead (10)..... they went wrong. Today he spends a lot (11)...... time out of his workshop and in (12)...... saddle, thanks to a new engine and (13)....... quality control.
Greater reliability is important because (14)...... is a new breed of biker without Bros’s DIY (do-it-yourself) ability (15)...... is accelerating Harley’s recovery - the mature rider (16)...... “returnee”. With money to spare after the (17)...... have grown up and left home, the returnee (18)..... afford £5,000 to £ 12,000 for a machine which rides purely (19)...... pleasure. (He keeps a car for getting (20)...... A to B.)
He may not even clean the (21)...... , preferring to have it valeted by a dealer. “ (22)...... I have the time to spare I (23)...... to ride the bike, not mess about fixing (24)...... cleaning it,” says born-again biker Ross Brisbane, the 42-year-old managing (25)...... of a busy food factory, who has (26)....... two Harleys in as many years.
Making (27)...... thousands of bikes a year in just four basic styles (28)...... only three engine sizes, Harley cannot possibly (29)....... to match the Japanese on technological innovation. (30)...... instead it goes for artificial individuality. By mixing (31)........ matching parts it extends the range into 24 models -including the Fat Boy- each (32)....... which looks as if it has been customised (33)...... its owner. The tactic works for sales.
Motorcycle (34)...... for the whole market are down by 26 (35)...... cent this year. But not Harley’s. “The recession (36)..... not touched us at all,” says the (37)....... UK spokeswoman, Diane Charlton.
With so many models and (38)maybe/ relatively/ then few sales, every Harley owner feels like (39)..... individual instead of a tiny part (40)...... the indistinguishable HondaKawaSuziYam mass.
If a Harley owner does (41)...... across another on the same model, the bikes (42)...... likely to be different colours: a wide (43)....... of paint jobs is offered, with such wonderful (44)....... as candy sapphire sunglo (a bright blue) and wineberry pearl (a deep red).
Today’s Harleys (45)...... a lot better than the 78 sold in 1983, but (46)...... not perfect. The new Evolution V-twin engine, which comes (47)....... 1340cc, 1200cc and 883cc sizes, vibrates a lot. On the Glide and Lowrider (48)...... it is mounted on rubber and a lot (49)...... this vibration is absorbed. But on the Softails and smaller Sportsters the (50)....... is mounted directly on to the frame, and (51)...... of the vibrations pass through to the (52)....... numbing hands, feet and behind.
None of the (53)....... has good brakes (Harley owners often joke that (54)....... bikes could not out-brake a Channel Ferry). The smaller, (55)few/ less/ little expensive Sportster models have tiny “peanut” petrol tanks which (56)...... filling up as often as every 60 to 70 miles.
Lastly, the bikes (57)...... not perform as well as their technically superior (58)....... rivals. Top speeds of about 100 mph sound pathetic when the (59)....... Japanese superbike is capable of 170 mph. But as both speeds are illegal, who cares?
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