Task 1
• Read this story about an absent-minded lady and
then read the half sentences following it.
• Your task is to match the half sentences based on the
information in the text.
• Write the letters (A-K) in the white boxes next to the
numbers (1-7) as in the example (0).
• There are two extra letters that you will not need.
WRONG TURN
Have you wondered whether sometimes your GPS tracker may not be as smart as you think it
is? Not sure? Then sit back and prepare to go on a 900-mile driving adventure that will
involve multiple language traffic signs and a gas bill that will leave you gasping.
To start out, all 67-year-old Sabine Moreau wanted to do was pick up a friend of hers
arriving at a local Brussels train station – a mere 38 miles from her home in Soire-sur-
Sambre. Nevertheless, things got a little hairy when Sabine took a wrong turn and somehow
found herself almost three days later, and after crossing 5 borders and seeing a full procession
of foreign traffic signs, on the other side of Europe. She still didn’t think her TomTom could
be leading her down the wrong path.
By the time she finally reached the town of Zagreb in Croatia, Sabine was beginning
to wonder if she had perhaps overshot her desired destination. When asked by local reporters
if she didn’t find the length of the journey – or the change in language – strange, Ms. Moreau
replied: ‘Maybe, but I was just distracted. I didn’t ask myself any questions.’
‘I stopped several times for petrol and paid with my credit card, so I didn’t realize how
hefty the bill was going to be. When I felt drowsy, I stopped for a nap in the car on a lay-by. I
was a bit absent-minded as I had a few things to think about, I suppose.’
By this stage, Ms. Moreau had caused her daughter considerable alarm, but fortunately
she managed to call home and inform her of her misadventure, just as she was contemplating
calling the police and launching a mass manhunt.
Ms. Moreau finally made it home 60 hours after embarking on her inadvertent
odyssey.
(www.msn.com)
írásbeli vizsga, I. vizsgarész 4 / 12 2014. május 8.
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Angol nyelv — emelt szint Azonosító
jel:
0) A satnav isn’t always A) to notice anything was
the cleverest gadget... wrong and kept driving.
1) Ms. Moreau set off B) to doubt she was approaching
in her car... her destination.
2) Not even seeing a series C) to get you to your
of signs in foreign destination.
languages caused her...
3) In Zagreb she realised that D) to stop at several petrol
perhaps she had managed... stations.
4) She said she was so lost E) to get a search under way
in thought that she failed... for her mother.
5) When she felt sleepy she F) to give somebody a lift.
stopped...
6) When she finally phoned G) to have a snooze by the
her daughter, she was about... roadside.
7) It took Ms. Moreau more H) to spend a lot of money
than two days on petrol.
I) to pass her intended
destination.
K) to get to Zagreb and back.
0) C
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
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