Answer Key (I variant)
Task 1. Listening (18 MARKS – 2 points per answer)
1. The United States of America
2. b. cell phone
3. a. work and business – ‘your company’
c. publicity and marketing – ‘advertisement’
4. True – ‘the term was immediately shortened’
5. False – it is short for ‘cellular phone’
6. False – ‘people shortened the phrase to cell’
7. True – ‘this usage is growing in the UK’
8. False – It was about the colour of the telephones
9. True – a cell is a simple room in a monastery, or where a prisoner sleeps in a prison
Task 2. Language (30 MARKS – 2 points per answer)
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Task 3. Reading (12 MARKS – 1 point per answer)
25. Google is now used in general English as a verb, among other types of word.
26. b. They are worried about the use of the word in general English
27. False – ‘In 1999, Google was designated the most useful word by the American Dialect Society, as a verb.’
28. True – ‘The word itself comes from a mathematical term, ‘googol’.’
29. True – ‘the Google search engine has also become impossibly large!’
30. False – ‘If you use it, they say, do use it with a capital ‘G’.’
31. False – ‘It now means any sort of vacuum cleaner’. [In fact, it can be used as a verb, but Professor Crystal does not mention this.]
32. True – ‘No firm, no matter how big, can control language change.’
33. 10 to the 100th power
34. to photocopy something
35. brand
36. penalty
Task 4. Writing (20 MARKS)
Task 5. Speaking (20 MARKS)
Tapescript (I variant) cell
By Professor David Crystal
When mobile phone technology came in a few years ago, the term was immediately shortened. Mobile phones became 'mobiles'. 'I've got my mobile.' 'Have you got your mobile on?' But that was in the UK. In the United States, a different term emerged, 'cell phone', short for cellular phone.
Now, cell phone was tricky because some people spelled it as one word and some people spelled it as two. I did a search on Google the other day, and the one-word spelling got eighteen million hits, and the two-word spelling got a hundred and thirty-five million hits. So it seems you can use both spellings at the moment. But either way, people shortened the phrase to 'cell'. And this usage is growing in the UK.
Somebody the other day said to me, 'Have you got your cell?' 'Call me on your cell!' 'Sync your cell with your company!' - That’s synchronise - synchronise your cell with your company - that's the sort of phrase you get these days.
I saw an advertisement, 'Cells have just got coloured!' In other words, mobile phones are now in different colours. It's a new sense of the word 'cell'. So, if somebody invites you to 'use my cell', it doesn't mean that they're asking you to go into their monastery, or indeed, asking you to visit them in prison!