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    TEST 6

    Multiple Choice Cloze

    For Questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

    Example: (0) A say B TELL C speak D announce

    Write the Perfect Crime Novel

    Most people are born with the natural ability to (0) ..tell ... stories, but only a rare few have the determination to become
    professional authors, and even fewer have the joy of seeing their novels top the (1) ... of bestselling books. Some of the
    world's famous crime writers have achieved the (2) ... success of all. Who can (3) ... the appeal of famous detectives like
    Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot? Even if you haven't read the (4) ... books you will have seen them in
    films or on the TV.
    If you have an ambition to become the (5) ... Agatha Christie what should you do? The best starting (6) ... is to read lots
    of examples of crime fiction written by good authors. You will need a notebook to carry around with you or, (7) ...
    better, some loose (8) ... of paper that you can (9) ... notes on and then file into a folder. After all, the most everyday
    situation - for example, watching a woman get (10) ... a train - may be the (11) ... for your first bestseller.
    Like any good recipe you have to know the main (12) ... of a successful novel. These are: an original story, strong
    characters and a memorable setting.

    1 A queue B list C row D line


    2 A largest B greatest C highest D prime
    3 A deny B refuse C insist D hide
    4 A first B initial C early D original
    5 A next B following C subsequent D later
    6 A spot B tip C point D mark
    7 A even B still C very D so
    8 A strips B sheets C layers D pieces
    9 A complete B do C fill D make
    10 A out B down C off D from
    11 A notion B idea C invention D inspiration
    12 A parts B ingredients C pieces D sections

    Too Good to be True

    Some say you can do it in seven days, others promise success in 24 hours, or you may prefer to take (0) ..your... time
    and do it in 5 weeks. What are we talking about? Believe it (1) ... not, these periods (2) ... time refer to language
    learning courses that promise excellent results in less time (3) ... it takes to say 'Bonjour'!
    However, the advertisements of these companies are not necessarily (4) ... best guide and if you don't know what to look
    for in a good course you could be left with little (5) ... than a large bill.
    A complaint was recently made to a consumer rights group (6) ... WhizzLearn Systems, a language school chain, and
    the company has been forced to remove its claim that its technique is ten times better than any (7) ... method. The
    Managing Director of WhizzLearn Systems said (8) "... we still believe our claim is true, we are willing to change our
    advert. But the fact remains, if you spend 3 hours (9) ... day for 5 weeks on our language course you will soon be
    speaking the language. What we (10) ... have done was to make (11) ... clearer in the advert. Then we wouldn't (12) ...
    had these annoying complaints".

    KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION

    1. Because it snowed heavily during the night the motorway is closed. due
    The motorway is closed ........................................ that there was heavy snow the night before.

    2. Did you manage to get in contact with the boss today? getting
    Did you ........................................ in contact with the boss today?

    3. I don’t care what you do. concerned


    As ........................................ you can do what you like.

    4. The meal we had in the restaurant was so nice. such


    It ........................................ meal in the restaurant.
    5. He was ordered to leave the field for arguing with the referee. sent
    The referee ....................................... for arguing.

    6. Do you and your brother have the same looks? like


    Does ........................................ you?

    7. That’s the garage where I left my car last week. repaired


    That’s where I went ........................................ last week.

    8. You can't bring food into this room. supposed


    You ........................................ food into this room.

    ERROR CORRECTION

    Some of the lines in this exercise are correct; others have a word which should not be there. Which lines are correct?
    Which are wrong, and what is the unnecessary word.

    A POLICEWOMAN´S JOB

    01. A policewoman can often get a confession out from a suspect

    02. by giving to him tea and sympathy. If a suspect is a young person of 16 or 17,

    03. she can act be as a mother. In fact, policewomen make regular patrols

    04. of night spots and discotheques looking there for young people

    05. who have run away from home. But they are also employed for more dangerous work.

    06. A big-time gambler called as Russian Robbie was shot dead

    07. and robbed of many several thousand pounds. To help

    08. find the killers, a policewoman disguised up herself. She had a description

    09. of one of the wanted men, and knew he was called Joe. She went on

    10. from the door to door in a rough slum area. She said Joe had left her with a baby,

    11. was her boy-friend, and she was trying to find him.

    12. A lot of dear old ladies told her she should have lead a better life.

    13. But she did find the flat at where the men were hiding. They were arrested.
    WORD BUILDING
    Dress Code

    UK companies have received (0) CRITICISM from CRITIC


    a business forum for what their report refers to as
    a rather narrow-minded attitude towards the dress
    code for office workers. This follows a case in
    which a male (1) ... working in the post room of a EMPLOY
    large (2) ... in the United Kingdom received a ORGANIZE
    (3) ... for wearing jeans to work. SUSPEND
    Whilst the report accepts that there is a need for
    people dealing with (4) ... to look well dressed, CUSTOM
    it questions whether employees who work behind
    the scenes necessarily need to dress formally.
    The authors of the report made a (5) ... between COMPARE
    the UK and other European nations where
    employers seem (6) ... about the need for their CONCERN
    workers to wear smart clothes in the office.
    Their (7) ... is based on research that claims ARGUE
    workers are far more (8) ... when they have the PRODUCT
    (9) ... to dress in a way that they feel most FREE
    (10) ... in. COMFORT
    KEY
    MULTIPLE CHOICE

    1. list 4. original 9. make


    5. next 10. off
    2. greatest 6. point 11. inspiration
    3. deny 7. even 12. ingredients
    8. sheets

    CLOZE TEST
    1. or 6. against / concerning / 9. a / per / every
    2. of about 10. should / could
    3. than 7. other / similar 11. it / this / things
    4. the 8. although / though / while 12. have
    5. more / whilst
    WORD BUILDING
    1. employee 6. unconcerned
    2. organisation 7. argument
    3. suspension 8. productive
    4. customers 9. freedom
    5. comparison 10. confortable

    A POLICEWOMAN´S JOB (ERROR CORRECTION)

    01. out 06. as 10. the

    02. to 07. many 12. have

    03. be 08. up 13. at


    04. there 09. on

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