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Question One: Reading
For items (1-6), read each one carefully then choose from A,B,C or D the correct answer.
We all have to seize the opportunity and realise that the hotel will not only give us work, but offer improvements to the whole area around the beach. The developers have promised a new road with wide pavements to and from the beach and a replacement of the sad old beach restaurants which have been there for years. We have asked for such development for years and I’m so happy that the developers have come up with a solution to help local people. _______________________________
1- Choose the suitable sentence to complete the blank in the above text.
- I am also sure that locals who work at the old restaurants will probably lose their jobs.
- Not only will the hotel need local workers but there are sure to be other jobs in tourism when the hotel guests start to arrive.
- But when I put in a request to find out more about the developers on the internet, I quickly changed my mind.
- She stressed it was ridiculous to believe the residents could be guilty of harming the workers.
2- The promises that the developers gave to improve the area around the beach are ………
- a new road with wide pavements and replacement of the sad old beach restaurants
- a new road with wide pavements and building old sad restaurants
- building sad old beach restaurants and encouraging tourism there
- offering job opportunities to local people and building poor hotels
3- The underlined pronoun refers to ……………...
- developers
- pavements
- restaurants
- beach
4- The sort of bias of the underlined sentence in the text is …….
- facts are exaggerated
- stereotypes and overgeneralisations
- little or no respect for different opinions
- language is dramatic or emotive
Sure, there are streaming services and with them access to more music than you could possibly listen to in a lifetime. While I don’t claim to speak for all young people, I’m quietly confident that most of us don’t want to have to choose our own music all the time. This is especially true when we are busy studying, exercising, cooking or whatever else we do with music in the background.
In fact, radio is a great way to discover new songs, artists and even styles of music that you might never think to search for yourself. Let’s not forget that radio is also much more than just music. There’s news, sports, discussion, interviews, factual shows and a whole lot more besides. Radio is here to stay so turn on, and listen up!
5- According to the writer, the situations in which we don’t have to choose our own music when we are busy are ……………
- discovering new songs and cooking
- discovering new styles of music and studying
- studying, exercising, cooking
- factual shows and listening to music
6- Apart from listening to music, the radio also contains ………
- factual shows and streaming services
- news and interviews
- sports and discussion
- B + C
Question Two : Vocabulary
For items (7-16), read each one carefully then choose from A,B,C or D the correct answer.
7- Why did a news report _______ that social media accounts would close if users made a spelling mistake?
- bizarre
- expose
- gone down
- claim
8- The journalist _____________________ the reason why the factory was so polluting.
- maintained
- exposed
- clues
- fraud
9- Articles published online need to be very brief because everyone has such a short ________ span these days.
- attention
- clickbait
- public
- Light
10- We think this story is in the public ____________________ .
- headlines
- clothes
- interest
- light
11- The developers ------------- a statement about their improvement scheme.
- report
- refused
- come up with
- released
12- ___________________ means considering all sides equally
- Balanced
- Newsworthy
- Topical
- Off the record
13- Tourists love __________________ for photos in front of famous buildings.
- hoax
- enigma
- posing
- peering
14- Circle the odd one out
- glance
- race
- spot
- peer
15- We reported what happened ___________________ the police.
- up
- to
- in
- for
16- never/ to me /the other day / what / happened / you will / believe
The sentence which is written in the correct order is …………………
- you will never believe what happened to the other day
- what never happened to the other day you will believe
- to the other day you will never happened what believe
- what you will never believe happened to the other day
Question Three : Grammar
For items (17-25), read each one carefully then choose from A,B,C or D the correct answer.
17- I ___________________ the website twice before I went to school.
- had checked
- checked
- had been checking
- had been checked
18- We_________________________ about the hoax at the time.
- knows
- know
- hadn’t been knowing
- hadn’t known
19- He was tired as he __________________ for hours.
- had flown
- had been flying
- flew
- had been flown
20- Tasneem _____________________ Ghina regularly.
- had been visited
- had visited
- had been visiting
- visited
21- By the time I ________________ to the field, the object had disappeared.
- get
- got
- had got
- had been getting
22- They had only just left when the house exploded.
The correct negative inversion form of the sentence above is:
- Scarcely had they left than the house exploded
- Scarcely had left they when the house exploded
- Scarcely they had left when the house exploded
- Scarcely had they left when the house exploded
23- _____________ did he run a marathon, but he did it alone!
- Under no circumstances
- Not only
- No sooner
- Little
24- We revealed the truth and then we uncovered more lies.
The correct negative inversion form of the sentence above is:
- No sooner had we revealed the truth than we uncovered more lies.
- No sooner had we revealed the truth when we uncovered more lies.
- No sooner we had revealed the truth than we uncovered more lies.
- No sooner have we revealed the truth than we uncovered more lies.
25- Under no circumstances should you approach the animal
The negative inversion in the above sentence is used ………
- for the duration of states before a specific point in the past
- to add emphasis (special meaning) to a sentence
- for the duration of actions that began earlier in the past and continued to the time of the story
- for earlier past processes with a relevance to the main events in the story