CEPT Practice B2 Level multiple choice gap fill about welcome guests

 

Welcome guests? 

My wife Penny and I usually love to 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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A repairing B recovering C revising D retiring 

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A terms B days C times D ages 

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A fine B strong C good D right 

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A taken B left C chosen D gone 

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A exhausted B tired C demanding D caring 

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A extension B relaxation C expression D reflection 

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A major B essential C key D main 

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A regard B believe C think D expect

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2 B 

3 C 

4 A 

5 C 

6 B 

7 D 

8 A

CEPT Practice B2 Level Read and select about a woman at number 20

 

The woman at number 20 was no doubt mindful of a crime prevention circular she had received very recently and said that she would expect them to know whether she had a water meter if they were genuine employees of the water company. The tall man from the van showed a card to the sceptical woman, which seemed to satisfy her. She went into her house and left them to it. The three men busied themselves in the driveway of number 18. They raised a manhole cover, then one man got a toolbox from the van, went round the side of the house and into the back garden. After a few minutes the front door opened and he appeared at it, signalling to his colleagues. The tall man closed the manhole cover, took another toolbox from the van and went to the doorstep. He glanced around, then he also entered the house, leaving the front door ajar. The third man reversed the van into the driveway. 

What does 'it' in line 8 (line 4 in the video) refer to? 

A the tall man's card 

B the driveway of number 18 

C the house next door 

D the work they had to do 

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The correct answer is letter D.

CEPT Practice B2 Level Listen and select about a school project

 

You hear two students talking about a school project. What do they decide about their projects? 

A They will do the project together. 

B They will do projects in the same field. 

C They need more time to plan their projects. 

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Boy: Have you started the science project yet, Sally?

Girl: No. I’m still looking for ideas. How about you? What are you going to do? You always have such interesting ideas.

Boy: I think I’m going to do something about chemicals in food – you know, what we put in our lunchboxes every day and what they do to us. Don’t you have any ideas at all?

Girl: Well, I was thinking about something like that too. I was watching something on TV about how fat’s not always bad for you. But wouldn’t you mind if I did that sort of project too?

Boy: No, that’s OK. We can help each other out, can’t we?

Answer = B