Reading and Writing Part 1

Questions 1- 6
For each question, choose the correct answer.

1 Hi Dave, A Dave and Mike will go to the

game together.
I hope you can still play football
today. The time of the game has B Mike thinks Dave wants to
changed to 5.00 p.m. See you change the time of the game.
there.
C Mike wants Dave to know the
Mike time of the game.

2 WANTED: Cleaner A Somebody wants a cleaner with

no experience.
No experience needed
B Somebody wants a cleaner and
Must be hard worker experience is not important.

Phone: 07654 321111 C Somebody wants a hard-working

cleaner with no experience.

3 To: Diana A Ruth will come to the meeting

after it starts.
From: Ruth
B Ruth wants Diana to wait for her
Diana, before the meeting.
Sorry, I will be late for our C Ruth will start the meeting later
meeting today. Please start the than she planned to start it.
meeting without me and I will
join you when I can.

Ruth
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Special Supermarket Offer! After 5 p.m. bananas will be more

expensive.
Today only!
B You can only buy bananas today.
5 bananas for £2
C Before 5 p.m. there is no special
Offer ends at 5 p.m. offer.

Henry, A Monika wants to bake a cake.

I forgot eggs. We don’t need B Monika wants Henry to buy

many, but I want you to bake a eggs.
cake. Can you get some on your
way home? C Monika doesn’t need eggs.

Monika

LATE NIGHT A On Mondays you can shop at 9

SHOPPING! p.m.

Until 8 p.m. in the week and until B On Fridays you can only shop
10 p.m. at the weekend after 8 p.m.

C On Saturdays and Sundays you

can shop at 9 p.m.
Reading and Writing Part 2
Questions 7-13

For each question, choose the correct answer.

Alan Rod Ben

7 Who doesn’t have a favourite sport? A B C
Who was very good at a sport that was not their
8 A B C
favourite?
9 Who had extra lessons in a sport? A B C
10 Who says their body size helps them do a sport? A B C
11 Who has enjoyed football all their life? A B C
12 Who likes to play with a group of other people? A B C
13 Who says they are good at only one sport? A B C

Talking about Sport

Alan

I started playing tennis when I was five years old, but I was never very good at it. My parents
really wanted me to do well and paid for me to have lessons outside school, but I always
preferred football. I’m good enough to be in a top local team. With tennis, I could never hit
the ball where I wanted it to go – it was always too high or too far. Finally, my parents let me
stop going to tennis lessons and I’ve spent my time playing football since then.

Rod

My favourite sport has always been rugby. I’ve tried other sports and I was good at tennis. I
won a tennis competition at school and my sports teacher told me that I was an excellent
tennis player. But I didn’t enjoy it as much as rugby because I like being part of a team. So I
stopped playing tennis when I was about thirteen. My teacher and parents thought I should
continue with it, but I preferred rugby.

Ben

I’ve always played a lot of sport. It’s an important part of my life, and since I left school I do
a wide variety of different types of sports – golf, rugby, tennis and football. I’m quite good at
all of them, but I can’t really say that I enjoy one of them more than the others. I’m probably
best at rugby because I’m a big person, and it is hard to stop me when I’m running fast.

Reading and Writing Part 3

 A very clever family
The Smiths are possibly the cleverest family in the country, and now the youngest member,
ten-year-old Charlotte, has won a national spelling competition to add to the family’s
successes. Charlotte is the youngest ever winner of the National Young Spelling Bee
Competition – the youngest winner before her was her older sister, Helen, who won it when
she was eleven.

Charlotte and Helen’s older brother, Mark, is also very clever. He finished school early and
went to university at the age of fifteen, three years before most young people start their
university studies. The children’s parents, Charles and Vivien, are both teachers and say their
children’s success comes from working hard, playing hard and following strict rules about
homework and bedtimes.

‘Other people think that Charles and I don’t let the children have any time to relax and play,
and that we’re always making them do their homework. But it’s not true!’ says Vivien. we
have lots of fun time in the family. But there’s a time for fun and there’s a time for work, and
we make sure the children understand that work comes before play.’

When Charlotte took part in the spelling competition the whole family, including her
grandparents, went to watch her. Helen took off a day from school – the first day in her life
that she missed going to school. ‘I felt bad about missing school,’ Helen said, ‘but I think it
was important to Charlotte that I was there.’

14 Charlotte won the spelling competition

A after her sister.

B when she was eleven.

C when she was older than Helen.

15 Most people

A go to university early.

B are like Mark when they go to university.

C start university at the age of eighteen.

16 Charles and Vivien help their children by

A letting them relax and play any time they want.

B making them do their homework before they relax.

C not letting them have any time to relax and play.

17 When Charlotte won the competition,

 A Helen missed it because she was at school.

B all the family were there, but not her grandparents.

C her brother, sister, parents and grandparents were watching.

18 Helen said that

A Charlotte wanted her to be at the competition.

B Charlotte missed school for the competition.

C Charlotte thought competitions were more important than school.

Reading and Writing Part 4

Questions 19-24

For each question, choose the correct answer.

The History of Cars

Cars have a long and interesting history. It is difficult to (19) …………… when the first car
was made. Most people (20) …………… that it was made by Karl Benz in 1885. Then in the
early twentieth century, cars (21) …………… widely available.

One of the first cars that it was (22) …………… for ordinary working people to buy was the
Model T Ford, made by Henry Ford in the USA. Henry Ford found a way of making a large
number of cars quickly and cheaply, and this changed the way that people thought about how
to manufacture things. By 1927, Ford had (23) …………… 15 million cars.

Today, car-making (24) …………… jobs to millions of workers. But the world is changing,
and the future of cars is far from clear.

19 A say B talk C believe

20 A allow B agree C arrive
21 A turned B started C became
22 A possible B general C ready
23 A sold B spent C shown
24 A has B wins C gives

Reading and Writing Part 5

Questions 25-30
For each question, write the correct answer. Write ONE word for each gap.

Example: 0 a

From: Helen

To: Henry

Hi Henry,

I hope you’re well. I’m having (0) …………… birthday party next week and I hope (25)
…………… can come. It’s (26) …………… Friday evening from 8.00 p.m. until late. I’m
having it (27) …………… home to keep things simple. I’m asking everyone (28)
…………… bring some food to share. Can you bring something too? If so, (29) ……………
me know what you will bring. Then I can tell the others to bring (30) …………… different.

See you soon,

Helen

Reading and Writing Part 6

Question 31

You want to meet your English friend, Jane, for lunch this weekend.
Write an email to Jane.

In your email:

• suggest meeting for lunch this weekend

• say when you would like to have lunch

• say where you would like to have lunch.

Write 25 words or more.

Write the email on your answer sheet.

Reading and Writing Part 7

Questions 25-30
Look at the three pictures.
Write the story shown in the pictures.
Write 35 words or more.

Write the story on your answer sheet.

1C 2B 3A 4A 5B 6C

7 C 8 B 9 A 10 C 11 A 12 B 13 A

14 A 15 C 16 B 17 C 18 A

19 A 20 B 21 C 22 A 23 A 24 C

25 you 26 on 27 at 28 to 29 let 30 something

1C 2B 3A 4A 5B 6C

7 C 8 B 9 A 10 C 11 A 12 B 13 A

14 A 15 C 16 B 17 C 18 A

19 A 20 B 21 C 22 A 23 A 24 C

25 you 26 on 27 at 28 to 29 let 30 something