MOCK EXAM 9 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH 1 EXAM PART 1. MULTIPLE CHOICE LEXICAL CLOZE TEST. Read the text and then select the correct answer, A, B, C or D. There is an example at the beginning: (0) A say B tell

C speak

D announce

Write the Perfect Crime Novel Most people are born with the natural ability to (0) ... 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 TV. If you have an ambition to become the (5) ………. Agatha Christie what should you do? The best starting (6) ………. is to read (7) ………. of examples of crime fiction written by good authors. You will need a notebook to carry around with you or, (8) ……….better, some loose (9) ………. of paper that you can (10) ………. notes on and then file into a folder. 1. A) queue

B) list

C) row

D)line

2. A)largest

B) greatest

C) main

D)prime

3. A) deny

B) refuse

C) insist

D)hide

4. A) fist

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) lot

B) lots

C) much

D)few

8. A) even

B) still

C) very

D)so

9. A) strips

B) sheets

C) layers

D)pieces

C) fill

D)make

10. A) complete B) do

PART 2. OPEN CLOZE TEST. Read the test and fill in the blanks with ONE word. The activity begins with an example ( 0). When we consider how the world 0.has changed 1..................... our great-grandparents’ time, it’s important to take 2..................... account how transport has changed. Of course, people complain 3...............................traffic now, but even in the past people 4........................ to think that the roads were dangerous. When cars 5.............................. a new invention, a man would walk in front of them with a red flag, warning everybody. Now

of

course,

we

have

6..............................

used

to

them.

Another thing we 7........................... find strange any more is the range of products in our shops. As we go to our local supermarket, we see tea form China, bananas from South America and radios from Japan. All these products 8........................... be transported. Every day goods are moved 9...............................one part of the world to another by all kinds of means of transport. One of the wonders of transport is that, 10................................ we stay in one place, the whole world comes to us.

PART 3.MIXED WORDS. GAP FILLING. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with the right word from the box below. The words are in the wrong order.There are TWO words that you do not need. The activity begins with an example (0). however, seem, factors, circumstances, naturally, native, ,similar, foreign, used, thought, hardest, then. The hardest language People often ask which is the most difficult (0)language to learn, and it is not easy to answer because there are many 1...........................to take into consideration. Firstly, in a first language the differences are unimportant as people learn their mother tongue 2.................... , so the question of how hard a language is to learn is only relevant when learning a second language. A 3........................speaker of Spanish, for example, will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a native speaker of Chinese, for example, because Portuguese is very

4.......................to Spanish, while Chinese is very different, so first language can affect learning a second language. The greater the differences between the second language and our first, the harder it will be for most people to learn. Many people answer that Chinese is the 5..................language to learn, possibly influenced by the 6..........................of learning the Chinese writing system, and the pronunciation of Chinese does appear to be very difficult for many 7....................learners. 8....................... for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning writing will be less difficult than for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet. Some people 9.......................... to learn languages readily, while others find it very difficult. Teachers and the 10..........................in which the language is learned also play an important role, as well as each learner's motivation for learning. PART 4. GAP FILLING. VERB TENSES AND FORMS. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with the right tense and form of the verbs in brackets. The activity begins with an example (0). The Man Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (0) IS AWARDED ( AWARD) every year for a novel 1.......................( WRITE)by a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and it 2.................... (AIM) to represent the very best in contemporary fiction. The prize 3.............(BE) originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize, which was the name of the company that 4.........................(SPONSOR) it, though it was better-known as simply the ‘Booker Prize’. In 2002, the Man Group 5.......................( BECOME) the sponsor and they 6.................( CHOOSE) the new name, keeping ‘Booker’. Publishers can submit books for consideration for the prize, but the judges can also ask for books to be submitted they think should be included. Firstly, the Advisory Committee 7................( GIVE) advice if 8.....................( THERE ARE) any changes to the rules for the prize and selects the people who 9........................ (JUDGE) the books. The judging panel 10........................( CHANGE)every year and usually a person is only a judge once.