PASSAGE 3 – Questions 21-30
Memorandum
To all staff,
The hospital is always trying to cut its carbon footprint, and to do this, we want to encourage staff, visitors and patients to use environmentally-friendly forms of transport to and from the hospital. Therefore, we are making the following changes, which will come into effect from 1st April:
Car Park A will stay as a staff car park, but, to encourage car sharing, it will only be available to cars containing 3 passengers or more. This rule will be in place between 7am and 6pm. A car park attendant will monitor users. Note that cars do not have to leave the car park with three passengers. The parking fee will remain at the current price of £1 an hour up to a maximum of £5 per day. If you are interested in car sharing and wish to find members of staff who live in your area or along your route, please click on the link on the human resources page of the hospital website. Car Park C, previously a staff-only car-park, will now be open to visitors at the increased cost of £2/hour up to 5 hours, and £1 an hour after that. These new rates will also apply to staff/visitor Car Park E. Car Park B will only be open to blue card holders. Only senior and emergency staff are eligible for this card.
Car park D will no longer be in use, as it will make way for an improved bus park. The current bus service (Service 56D) from the city centre will be replaced by two services. The service will be available to staff, patients and visitors alike.
Service 57A will run from: Hebdon Town centre, Hebden Station, Critchley Park and Ride, Grafton Street Train Station, Portchester City Centre (Bus Stop D on Mill Yard) to the hospital. The service will run 24 hours a day every 20 minutes between 7am and 7pm and once an hour during the night.
Service 62A will run from Oldgrave Town Centre, Kings Wood Park and Ride and Polegate Park and Ride to the hospital every 15 minutes between 7.30 am and 7.00 pm and once every 30 minutes thereafter.
The buses will have a flat rate of £1 per journey. Staff will be able to buy a bus pass valid for 20 trips for just £15. These can be purchased on the bus.
Staff can also purchase a Go! pass from the human resources website. The Go! pass costs £45 and entitles users to park at any of the city's park and ride services for just £2 a day. It is valid for one year.
There will also be an improved lock-up shed for bicycles and motorcycles in the former car park D. Hospital staff may wish to take advantage of the voucher giving 50% off all cycles and cycle accessories bought from Perkin's Wheels, which is downloadable from the Human Resources website. Note that you will have to show your staff ID card at the store when making purchases. There will be a fix-it session once a fortnight in car park D on Fridays at 2pm- 5pm. At this time, bicycle mechanics from Perkins Wheels will give advice on bicycle upkeep and make minor bicycle repairs free of charge.
We hope you will take advantages of these schemes.
Under the rules, staff can only park in car park A at noon if
- A. they hold a blue card
- B. there are three people in the car
- C. there are two people in the car
- D. they stay for a maximum of 5 hours
- A. £4
- B. £14
- C. £5
- D. £15
- A. visit the human resources department.
- B. speak to their departmental manager.
- C. ask their friends
- D. go online
- A. staff only
- B. visitors only
- C. staff and visitors
- D. everybody
- A. £8
- B. £13
- C. £18
- D. £ 23
- A. £4
- B. £7
- C. £8
- D. £10
- A. not given in the text
- B. the same as car parks C & E.
- C. the same as car park A
- D. £5
- A. 30 minutes
- B. 35 minutes
- C. 40 minutes
- D. 59 minutes
- A. £1
- B. £4
- C. £7
- D. £11
- A. It sells bicycles and motorbikes
- B. It will sell goods to staff at half price
- C. It will fix staff member's bikes for no charge
- D. It will fix cars for staff members
PASSAGE 4 – Questions 31-40
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight. Cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
All living cells sent out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of recorded electricity; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small-of-ten so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.
The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to the length of its body.
What does the word HESITATE in the first paragraph mean?
- A. crash
- B. stop
- C. be uncertain
- D. be fast
- A. more than twenty years ago
- B. more than two hundred years ago
- C. more than two thousand years ago
- D. more than two million years ago
- A. Electric pulses of animals are dangerous for themselves
- B. Very tiny animals like mosquitoes do not have
- C. A dead elephant still have electric pulses
- D. A fly has pulses of electricity
- A. surprising
- B. small
- C. strong
- D. weak
- A. Α. 45
- B. 54
- C. 4/5
- D. 5/4
- A. Electric eels are potentially dangerous
- B. Biology and electricity appear to be closely related
- C. People would be at a loss without electricity
- D. Scientists still have much to discover about electricity
- A. refrigerated food items may go bad
- B. traffic lights do not work
- C. people must rely on candlelight
- D. elevators and escalators do not function
- A. To warn the reader to stay away from them
- B. To compare their voltage to that used in houses
- C. To give an example of a living electrical generator
- D. To describe a new source of electrical power
- A. 1,000
- B. 800
- C. 200
- D. 120
- A. more beneficial it will be to science
- B. more powerful will be its electrical charge
- C. easier it will be to find
- D. tougher it will be to eat
