Reading and Use of English Part 1 - B2 - Grammar Focus: Adjectives

EXAM TASK

Reading and Use of English Part 1

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

There is an example at the beginning (0). 0 A entertain| B visit | C receive | D host Welcome guests?

My wife Penny and I usually love to (0) entertain our friends but we will never invite my old friend Fred and his wife Kate again! We are currently (1) _______ from the weekend they spent with us. We’ve known them both since our school (2) _______ . So, although we rarely see them, you’d think we’d have a fairly (3) _______ idea of what sort of people they were. However, we discovered that our lives have (4) _______ very different directions. We have good jobs but they are very (5) _______ and we work long hours. At weekends we try to snatch a few moments of (6) _______ in between catching up with the housework. Kate and Fred are postgraduate students and they live with his parents. His mother cooks their (7) _______ meals for them and does all their washing. So they (8) _______ weekends as leisure time and never think of offering to help with daily chores. By the time they left, we were both cross and worn out!

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• 0 A entertain B visit C receive D host

1. A repairing B recovering C revising D retiring

2. A terms B days C times D ages

3. A fine B strong C good D right

4. A taken B left C chosen D gone

5. A exhausted B tired C demanding D caring

6. A extension B relaxation C expression D reflection

7. A major B essential C key D main

8. A regard B believe C think D expect

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EXAM TIPS!

• Read through the whole text first.

• Look at the words before and after each gap.

• Try each word (A, B, C and D) in the gap and decide which is correct. If you are not sure, choose the word that you think best fits the gap.

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GRAMMAR FOCUS

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Grammar focus task

The words below are from the exam text. Which of them are adjectives (a) and which of them are nouns (n) that can be used as adjectives?

daily | different | good | leisure | long | main | old | school | postgraduate

Without looking back to the text, match each word from above with the noun it describes in the text.

1. daily chores

2. _____ friend

3. _____ days

4. _____ idea

5. _____ directions

6. _____ hours

7. _____ students

8. _____ meals

9. _____ time