READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TEST 3
PART 1: THE GESTURE INTERFACE
1 C: The other words do not fit the context.
2 A: forms a multi-word verb with ‘up with’ which means ‘thought of’.
3 D: The other words do not fit the context.
4 A: The other words cannot be followed by ‘on’ in this context.
5 B: introduces an alternative or contrast.
6 D: Only this word can be followed by ‘to’.
7 B: collocates with ‘a photograph’.
8 A: phrasal verb with ‘out’ meaning ‘understand’.
PART 2: CHOOSING THE BEST SHADES
9 put: (verb) collocates with ‘thought into’.
10 but: (conjunction) introduces a contrast
11 more: (adverb) part of a fixed phrase followed by a comma
12 to: (preposition) follows ‘guide’
13 (Although) Though/ While (Whilst): (linker) provides a contrast
14 which: (relative pronoun) introduces a clause
15 as: (preposition) follows ‘known’
16 take: (verb) part of a fixed expression with ‘seriously’
PART 3: RAFTING ON THE ZAMBEZI RIVER
17 incredible: positive adjective to negative adjective
18 description: verb to noun
19 impression: verb to noun
20 surrounding: verb to adjective
21 farther/further: adverb to comparative adjective
22 difficulty: adjective to noun
23 beginners: verb to plural noun
24 dangerous: noun to adjective
PART 4
25 is unlikely to do: parallel expression using infinitive construction
26 has (great) trouble getting: expression using ‘-ing form)
27 is such a good swimmer: verb to noun determined by ‘such a?
28 should be met by: change of subject, modal verb in passive form
29 put up with: phrasal verb with same meaning
30 wish I had been: past perfect use after ‘wish’
PART 5: MOVING HOUSE
31 B: ‘I’ve shaken out all the dirt,’ she said as Lyn tipped up the nearest one, checking
that it was empty.
32 A: ‘I´ll do it’ refers to Lyn’s mother´s request – that she will put her belongings in
boxes.
33 D: ‘You could’ve told me,’ she said. ‘I have got people to say goodbye to, you
know.’
34 C: ‘I don’t want that Mrs Wilson touching our things.’
35 A: ‘It’s been agreed for a long time and it’s extremely kind of her to help.’
36 B: But what really struck Lyn most were the rectangles of light-coloured paint on
the wall where pictures had once hung.
PART 6: THE AIRPORT PHOTOGRAPHER
37 D: ‘Most of them’ refers back to the celebrities.
38 C: ‘One of them’ refers to the ‘the ground and security staff’.
39 A: ‘they’ refers to all the stars named earlier in the paragraph.
40 F: ‘when that happens’ refers to celebrities saying: ‘no pictures’.
41 G: This sentence with ‘however’ tells us that we are going to hear about someone
with a different attitude from those described before.
42 B: ‘them’ refers to the Duchess and her babies.
PART 7: I LOVE MY BIKE
43 C: I still get too hot … you can’t really do without one, can you?
44 A: make sure the saddle’s right … you don’t want to get sore.
45 D: I think he was making it up.
46 C: some of my friends think that’s a bit uncool, but I don’t really go along with that
idea.
47 B: try and dodge the showers.
48 B: snarled up in the traffic … a pain in a motor vehicle.
49 C: I cycle down to college in no time at all, but the uphill trek home takes me
around thirty-five minutes.
50 A: the bike was a good reflection of the real me.
51 D: it did get stolen on one occasion.
52 B: I worked briefly as a cycle courier.
