Exam information | Matching sentence endings
In the exam, you may be given a number of incomplete sentences and you will need to complete them by choosing from a list of options. There will be more options than you need. The sentences will be in the same order as the information in the text.
Exam tip
Try to predict how each sentence will end before looking at the list of endings.
1a. Try to predict what type of word will come next in the following sentences. Choose from verb, noun, adjective, adverb or preposition. There may be more than one possibility.
1. The African Charter on the rights and welfare of the
2. It was chosen
3. This Children's charter
4. It covers the economic, social, political and cultural
5. Education needs to be
6. It needs to be delivered
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1b. Now use your predictions to match the sentence beginnings 1-6 with the correct endings a-f.
Exam tip
The complete sentences need to be grammatically correct, but they also need to
accurately reflect the information in the text. This is another type of exam task where
focusing on the key words in the instructions and looking for synonyms and paraphrasing
in the text will help. Look for the key words in the sentence beginnings, not the endings:
you may not need to read through all the endings in detail, so don't waste your time!
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2. The following text has been divided into four parts. For each part, choose the best sentence
ending from a number of options.
i. Human rights . . .
a are about having everything you need and want.
b apply especially to people with disabilities.
c are about rights and also about freedoms.
ii. Human rights ...
a not before World War 11.
b are less important when there is a war.
c are now an international issue
Human rights are ideas about what everyone is
entitled to. Basic human rights include the right to
life, and the right to food and clean drinking water.
Others include the right to vote and to freedom of
expression. In the UK, most people have their basic
human rights met most of the time. However, in
some countries people's freedoms may be limited.
Also, in the UK, there are still areas of human rights
that some people believe could be improved, such
as the rights of people with disabilities.
The modern idea of human rights was developed after
the SecondWorldWar, during which many people's
rights were violated. On a large scale, these human
rights abuses are known as war crimes. As a result,
the United Nations (UN) was formed to provide a place
for nations to resolve conflicts peacefully. It was set up
by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
which consisted of 30 articles describing the basic rights
of every person, and was signed in 1948 by 48 countries.
iii. According to the Universal Declaration, it is an issue of fairness to be . . .
a accepted everywhere in public.
b educated.
c equal treatment.
The first section of the Universal Declaration states:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity
and rights:
Key rights relating to being 'born free' include freedom
of speech and of movement, the right to a fair trial,
and freedom from torture and from hunger.
Key rights relating to 'being equal' include a right to an
education, and the right to be treated equally, without
discrimination, in all areas of public life.
The Universal Declaration was designed as a safeguard
to protect the human rights of people around the world.
iv. The European Charter of Fundamental Rights . . .
a resulted in social and technological changes.
b included information about rights related to new technology.
c replaced older declarations of human rights
A legal basis for human rights
The European Convention of Human Rights was
drawn up in 1 963, giving a legal framework for human
rights in the UK and other European countries. Here,
people can complain to the European Court of Human
Rights (or ECHR), based in Strasbourg, France. In
1998, the European Union (EU) decided to update the
list of human rights, to take account of changes in
society and technology. The result was the European
Charter of Fundamental Rights (2000). This included
some newer human rights:
- The right to a private life, including a right to privacy
and to confidentiality of letters and emails.
- The right to limits on working hours and to have
annual paid holiday.
- The right to respect the integrity of human beings,
including a ban on financial gain from the human
body. This includes the sale of human organs and
the cloning of human beings.
- The right to data protection, which means that if a
company holds data on you, you can ask where it
got the information and what it is.
v. If you are under 18 ...
a there should be economic, cultural and other rights.
b you should obey the rules of the 1991 convention.
c you have over 40 rights.
People aged 17 and under·
For children and young people there isThe United Nation's
Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which
covers economic, social, cultural and political rights.
The UK agreed to obey the rules of the convention in
1991, which means that every child in the UK, without
exception, has certain rights that he or she is entitled to,
more than 40 in total. Here are some examples:
- the right to life, survival and development
- the right to have their views respected, and to have
their best interests considered at all times
- the right to a name and nationality, freedom of
expression, and access to information concerning them
- the right to education, leisure, culture and the arts
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