ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST (30 minutes)

Level B
Part 1. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
Example:

What timeyou get up yesterday?

A. do
B. are
C. did
D. will

1. Why do you spend all your time ________ your sister.

A. arguing about
B. arguing for
C. arguing with
D. arguing at
2. Please call me when ________ to go out.
A. you ready
B. you are ready
C. are you ready
D. ready
3. He speaks Japanese, ________?
A. does he
B. isnt he
C. doesnt he
D. didnt he
4. She went to the movies last night, but I ________.
A. didnt either
B. didnt
C. did
D. went
5. Since the beginning of the storm several trees ________ down.
A. fell
B. felt
C. have fallen
D. have felt
6. The dog kept ________ at the stranger and frightened him away.
A. barked
B. barking
C. was barking
D. has barked
7. The children had been ________ of the danger, but had taken no notice.
A. warned
B. explained
C. shown
D. prevented
8. He lost all his money through ________ on cards and horses.
A. playing
B. risking
C. gambling
D. chancing
9. His father had ________ him how to make model aeroplanes.
A. guided
B. taught
C. described
D. planned
10. I would like to offer a small ________ to anyone who finds my missing dog.
A. receipt
B. repayment
C. expense
D. reward
Part 2. Read the text below and choose the best answer
Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and when she chose to live alone far
away from people, she went about as far as it is possible to go to escape humanity. She
lives in Belize - a country the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her
home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a
ten-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a plot of land and two small huts so hidden
in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.
She lives happily and totally alone - growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and
dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food
supplies and mail - usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits
of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and chop wood for
her and the occasional group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with
the offer of a cup of coffee.
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At night she lies in her tiny sleeping hut with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table
near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in the corner of the packet
bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts
she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals
and the radio are company enough.
But recently the very things which she had escaped from and hidden from so well have
begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the roar of
earth-moving machines not many miles away. Humanity and the 20 th
century, once only heard of distantly on the radio, are now on her doorstep. Things
began to change three years ago. The new main north-south highway in Belize was cut
through the forest only four or five miles away. "Now more and more people know I'm
here," she says, "I feel more threatened each day".
1. Dorothea's huts....
A. have always been her home
B. are entirely surrounded by trees
C. were built for just a few people
D. are in a country with the same population as Wales
2. Dorothea lives in the forest because....
A. she is too old to move
B. machines destroyed her home
C. she has no where to live
D. she doesn't like living near people
3. To keep her company, Dorothea has....
A. her sister
B. some animals
C. friends from Canada
D. a postman
4. Dorothea spends a lot of time....
A. talking with her neighbours
B. chopping down trees
C. listening to the radio
D. studying languages
5. In the last three years, Dorothea has been disturbed by....
A. the making of a new road
B. what she has heard on the radio
C. people visiting her home
D. threats of violence

Part 3. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
HONEY
Honey is a sweet liquid made by bees. It (1) of water and sugars.
Bees may travel as (2)... as seventy-five thousand kilometres and visit over
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two million flowers to produce just half a kilo of honey. The colour and flavour of honey
depend (3). the type of flower visited. In (4) , there are
more than three hundred (5). of honey.
The lighter-coloured ones are generally milder in flavour than darker honey.
In ancient (6) , honey was the main sweet food, as sugar
was very

(7). Honey was of great (8)... to the ancient

Egyptians, who used it as payment.

Today, honey is produced and eaten in (9). part of the world.
Research suggests that it prevents tiredness and improves athletic performance.
However, honey is not just food - it (10).. be taken for sore throats and is
used in many skin and hair-care products.
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A involves

B contains

C includes

D consists

A well

B long

C soon

D far

A to

B on

C for

D with

A case

B. order

C fact

D place

A varieties

B collections

C sets

D differences

A seasons

B times

C years

D dates

A distant

B rare

C small

D slim

A cost

B price

C value

D charge

A all

B some

C most

D every

10

A shall

B need

C can

D ought