FC Practice Test 6 II Name:_______________ score: _____%
Use of English
PART 1
For questions 1-12, read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
Example:
0 A standard B degree C measure D ability
At Home Abroad
Every year thousands of people travel to Britain in order to improve their (0)… of English. For many, however, this can be (1)… experience due to the fact that it involves (2)… a strange school, staying in sometimes unpleasant accommodation and living in an (3)… culture.
One (4)… to these problems is the Homestay method. With this, students are each assigned a teacher (5)… to their language requirements and interests, who they then stay with throughout their course. As well as giving individual tuition, the teacher (6)… the student with information about what activities are available locally and (7)… them on trips.
The idea (8)… Homestay is for students to be totally immersed in English language and culture. Students get between ten and twenty hours of tuition a week and are also expected to (9)… the family's daily activities. The students speak English at all times and therefore learn how to use the language in everyday (10)… .
Homestay programmes usually (11)… for up to four weeks. Although costs are higher than of regular language schools, students can feel (12)… that they will be receiving top-class language teaching in a safe and pleasant environment.
1
A
a sore
B
an aching
C
a hurtful
D
a painful
2
attending
going
studying
learning
3
unfamiliar
inexperienced
unaccustomed
unknown
4
reply
answer
key
reaction
5
right
proper
suited
correct
6
advises
provides
offers
suggests
7
goes
takes
brings
fetches
8
between
before
beside
behind
9
go along
join in
tie up
connect with
10
positions
parts
situations
backgrounds
11
stand
stay
last
remain
12
confident
reliable
self-assured
believed
PART 2
For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS in the answer boxes provided.
Example: 0 which
Going Bananas
The banana, (0)…………………. is one of the most popular varieties of fruit in the world, originally (13)…………………. from Southeast Asia. One banana might seem the same as (14)………………….. to you, but there are actually hundreds of different varieties. And (15)………………….. rice, milk and wheat, they are the world's fourth most important food crop. Today, bananas are grown in more than 130 countries throughout the tropics and worldwide annual production totals (16)……………… incredible one hundred million tons. So (17)………………. out because that's a lot of skins to slip on!
Only a small proportion of bananas are grown (18)……………….. commercial farms for export to places (19)………………. as the USA and Europe. The (20)…………….. of the crop is grown on smaller privately owned farms (21)………………. local populations to enjoy.
Bananas are an important dietary source of carbohydrates and essential vitamins in the developing world. So much so (22)………………. in tropical Africa, Asia and America over half a billion people rely heavily on bananas to provide them (23)…………….. essential nutrition. In some parts of Africa, bananas are eaten with every meal. Most of the varieties that are eaten in the tropics are not the same as the (24)……………….. that appear on our supermarket shelves, however; they are more like a potato and are eaten cooked.
PART 3
For questions 25-34, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example: 0 reality
So you want to be Famous?
The rise of (0)……………… television is causing more and more REAL
teenagers to believe that they can become instantly
(25)………………… . According to a recent survey, young people FAME
find the idea of fame so (26)……….………. that almost one in ten ATTRACT
would give up their (27)………………… if they had the chance to EDUCATE
appear on TV.
I can see the (28)………………… . Students see young people just TEMPT
like themselves becoming stars on TV shows almost (29)…………. OVER
and believe that it is possible for them, too. As someone whose
parents always stressed the (30)…………………. of getting the best IMPORTANT
qualifications I could, however, I find this difficult to accept. Statistics
also show that leaving school without (31)………………….…… BASE
qualifications will leave young people more likely to be
(32)……………. or stuck in low-paid jobs. Apart from this, the EMPLOY
chances of achieving fame through television are thirty million to
one!
If making money is the main reason a young person wants fame,
surely a (33)……………… way of increasing your future earning GOOD
power is to get some (34)………………….. qualifications?...
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