Practice KET (A2) Reading and Writing Test 07 with Answers

A   Dave and Mike will go to the game together.

B   Mike thinks Dave wants to change the time of the game.

C   Mike wants Dave to know the time of the game.

A   Somebody wants a cleaner with no experience.

B   Somebody wants a cleaner and experience is not important.

C   Somebody wants a hard-working cleaner with no experience.

A   Ruth will come to the meeting after it starts.

B   Ruth wants Diana to wait for her before the meeting.

C   Ruth will start the meeting later than she planned to start it.

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A   After 5 p.m. bananas will be more expensive.

B   You can only buy bananas today.

C   Before 5 p.m. there is no special offer.

A   Monika wants to bake a cake.

B   Monika wants Henry to buy eggs.

C   Monika doesn’t need eggs.

A   On Mondays you can shop at 9 p.m.

B   On Fridays you can only shop after 8 p.m.

C   On Saturdays and Sundays you can shop at 9 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

Write 25 words or more.

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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.