FC Practice Test 10 name:________________ score:_________%
Use of English
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
0 A situated B involved C occupied D connected
Accident prone
According to a recent study, personality could determine how likely you are to be (0) …. in an accident. In act, it could be the most important (1) …. behind around a quarter of all mishaps.
The (2) …. have found that there are three key personality traits that may make some people more accident prone than others. Firstly, (3) …. levels of aggressiveness or selfishness may (4) …. people more at risk of having accidents as individuals with these characteristics are often highly competitive and therefore more likely to not follow instructions and to (5) …. rules. It also seems that those who have very open personalities may also have more accidents as these (6) …. of people can be dreamy and (7) …. concentration. Finally, people who aren't very dependable or (8) …. may also be more at risk.
Not everyone, (9) …. , agrees with the study's (10) …. . A spokesperson for an accident prevention organisation said: "We must (11) …. responsibility for our actions and educate people to prevent accidents (12) …. blaming our personalities."
1
A
factor
B
point
C
item
D
Detail
2
investigators
inventors
explorers
researchers
3
steep
Wide
c
high
Top
4
put
Bring
carry
Make
5
refuse
ignore
reject
Deny
6
portions
kinds
forms
varieties
7
lose
Need
lack
Miss
8
responsible
acceptable
appropriate
suitable
9
therefore
however
nevertheless
moreover
10
solutions
discoveries
findings
answers
11
accept
receive
draw
Have
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other than
Apart from
more than
instead of
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 ago
Tea
The story of tea began over 5,000 years (0) ….. in ancient China. According (13) ….. legend, an early emperor, Shen Nung, required all drinking water to be boiled as a health precaution. One day, when he had stopped to rest during a long journey, his servants were boiling the water (14) ….. usual when dried leaves from a nearby bush fell into it and turned the water brown. (15) ….. the emperor was curious (16) ….. nature, he drank some of this new liquid and found it very refreshing.
The drinking of tea soon spread throughout Chinese, and later Japanese, society. In Japan, (17) ….. became a complicated art form called 'Tea Ceremony'. The (18) ….. important aspect of this was that the tea should be served (19) ….. the most polite, graceful and charming manner possible. This required years of training and practice.
Tea first arrived (20) …..Europe around the sixteenth century. At first it was very expensive, so only (21) ….. very wealthy could afford it, but as larger amounts were imported, it slowly got cheaper and (22) ….. part of the European way of life.
The first tea didn't reach England (23) ….. around 1650, but it was (24) ….. popular that it wasn't long before it became the national drink!
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: meeting
Lessons in Happiness
A (0) ………. was held at Cromwell Secondary School last
Tuesday in order to discuss the (25) ………. of 'Happiness'
lessons in September. Head teacher Russell Groves believes that this
idea may help to fight a (26) ………. rise in
(27) ………. and anti-social behaviour among the pupils at
the school. "21st century (28) ………. has many new pressures
and there is a growing ...
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