CEPT Practice A2 Level Long Listening about an activity holiday in Europe

 

1 This activity holiday is for students who are between

A 11 and 14. B 12 and 14. C 12and15.

2 The students will stay 

A on an island. B near a lake. C next to a forest.

3 Which activity does Danny think is the best?

A exploring parts of the forest

B building bridges

C going on night walks

4 Which sport can students do there?

A climbing B horse-riding C cycling

5 When will Danny go on this holiday?

A next June B next July C next August

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Audioscript

Listen to Danny telling Patricia about an activity holiday in Europe.

For each question, choose, the right answer (A, B or C).

Girl: Are you going on an activrty holiday in Turkey again this summer, Danny?

Boy: No. Patricia. I'm going to Iceland this time.

Girl: Wow! How old do you have to be? Can I go?

Boy: You're twelve, so yes ... Even eleven-year-old students can go put no-one's older than fourteen .

Girl: No fifteen-year-olds?

'Boy: No.

Girl: Where do you stay?

Boy: We camp in the middle of a wood. near the water there. It's a small lake. You can swim in it.

Girl: Great! What else?

Boy: My favourite thing will be the walks in the dark ... You build things too, like bridges. We visit different-parts-of-the-forest to draw trees, but that doesn't sound so exciting.

Girt Hmmm. I'd quite like to do that. Will you go horse-riding?

Boy: That's not possible but there are mountain bikes you can use.

Girl: What about climbing?

Boy: You don't do that ... But it will be lots of fun. Hey! Perhaps you can come too.

Girl: When are you going? In July or August?

Boy: I'm staying with my grandparents then, so I'm going in June.

Girl: Oh. Maybe I'll ask my dad tonight.

Boy: Great!

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2 B

3 C

4 C

5 A

CEPT Practice C2 Level Sentence Completion Test 1 with answer

 

CEPT Practice C2 Level Sentence Completion Test- Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1 After a great deal of hard work, Liz finally ____ her ambitions.

A got

B realized

C possessed

D deserved

2 The review committee ____ three practicing lawyers and a retired businessman.

A consists

B comprises

C makes up

D encloses

3 Don’t worry: this is nothing that  ____ you.

A matters

B entails

C concerns

D complicates

4 As always, I am  ____ with everything you say.

A agree

B agreeing

C agreeable

D in agreement

5 I ____ doubt whether she will actually carry out her threats.

A highly

B deeply

C absolutely

D seriously

6 Her description closely ____ that of a known criminal.

A assembles

B resembles

C dissembles

D reassembles

7 I ____ hope there won’t be a repetition of these unfortunate events.

A deeply

B strongly

C sincerely

D thoroughly

8 That voice sounds ____ : I’m sure I know her.

A known

B usual

C familiar

D remembered

9 Jake finally got the reward he so richly  ____ .

A owes

B earns

C deserves

D justifies

10 I strongly  ____ that her current enthusiasm is not going to last.

A think

B conclude

C speculate

D suspect

(Check your answers by watching the video.)

CEPT Practice C2 Level Multiple-choice Cloze about Putting Pen to Paper

 

Putting Pen to Paper

 Journalists like myself are usually poor letter-writers. I have heard it (1)____ that this is because of the instinctive distaste we feel at writing something we are not going to be paid for, but I cannot believe we have quite such mercenary characters. It is more probably that (2)_____in our work, we are always (3)_____ to get the greatest possible effect, the essential spontaneity of a letter (4)____ us. The real creative artist, who does not consciously work on the effect at all (though he may re- write a passage dozens of times), does not have this problem. I believe that it is in this inherent grasp of the effect of his words that there (5)_____ the only sure test of the real artist. When Shakespeare wrote some of his famous lines he (6)_____ never thought consciously that it was the contrast between polysyllables that made them so effective, as well as showing him to be a great writer.

1 A said B told C remarked D presumed

2 A since B for C like D once

3 A striving B exerting C contending D tackling

4 A misses B escapes C avoids D passes

5 A goes B remains C lies D exists

6 A inevitably B confidently C particularly D surely

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2 A

3 A

4 B

5 C

6 D