Final FCE Test PART 1 For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. SUMMER HOLIDAYS DON’T MEAN RELAXATION Holidays, holidays, holidays! That's all you hear before summer begins. Everyone is busy planning and booking ahead, Many (1) to their break for months and are in a (2)__of excitement for weeks before they leave. People have their cars serviced and go shopping to buy (3) clothes. 1 suppose it’s logical, 1 (4) ____ after a whole year of work, people want to relax and (5) mI themselves of some stress. However, I have my (6) about summer holidays. It’s the time when people vacate the city and go to summer resorts (7) find that everyone else has done the same thing. Places are very crowded. You go to restaurants where you have to (8)___to be served, the room you had booked is next to the beach and (9) is expensive. (10) you finally get back, you feel so tired that you need another holiday to get (11) the one you just had. I sometimes wonder if going on holiday is worth all that preparation and (12) ANSWER SHEET 1A look forward expect C anticipate A BCD B 2A situation B circumstance € state is x B 3A comect relevant C right D appropriate 4A say mean C express D remark 5 A relieve take off C remove D shake off 6 A uncertainti hesitations C dilemmas D doubts 7A only to such as € so that D even though 8 A insist on call for C demand D command 9 A whole everything C entire D total tl ed Me) D>! Det el eI 10 A Until While CAs D When 11 A over by C off D out of 12. A annoyance problem C inconvenience —__D disturbanceee PART 2 For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. Write your answers in capital letters on the separate answer sheet. ‘THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE EMPEROR PENGUIN ‘The Emperor Penguin is the largest penguin, standing over one metre tall. Its life eycle is something extraordinary and rather different (13) that of other animals. ‘The Antarctic summer (De ‘eb) is the time when the Emperor Penguins have a “holiday” and they feed in the sea. During the month of March, they set off for their long journey south to the place where they breed and lay their eges, AAs the long, dark winter arrives, each female lays one egg ditectly on the ice. The male immediately lifts the egg off the ice onto his feet. He (14) pushes it under his stomach for warmth, The female has completed her task and can now retum to the sea to feed, leaving the male with the egg. For over ‘wo months, (15) the males huddle together (16) keep warm, (17) other animal except for the penguin can survive in temperatures of -70PC. The chick will hatch during July. That's (18) __ the female returns bringing food for her chick. By that time the male penguin will have lost about half his body weight, because he won't have eaten (19) for five months. As (20) as the female returns, the male leaves in search of food. For the next six months, both parents take tums looking (21) the chick, (22) the beginning of the following summer, the (23) family goes to the sea, The adults can at last have a two-month break before (24) eyele bes again. ANSWER SHEET 9 ee}PART 3 For questions 25-34, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the gap in the same li answer sheet. MAGAZINES Magazines are big business. A large (25) of the population buy them (26) . In fact, some people even get their mage to their home by a (27) service. For others, magazines are an Zines brought 28) and they even collect them. But magazines are not to my (29) . They have ads promising @ 30) appearance with the use of certain products. They also print Bn and unreliable information. Apart from that, they fill their pages with photos of (32) clothes. What a waste of money! admit that 133) buy one when going on a trip, but short novels or comics are always (34) as far as I’m concerned. ANSWER SHEET ware eR 2 32 31 33 3a Ey Write your answers in capital letters on the separate MAJOR REGULAR DELIVER OBSESS LIKE DESIRE ACCURATE FASHION OCCASION PREFER, PA usin incluPART 4 For questions 35-42, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Write the missing words in capital letters on the separate answer sheet. 35. “Did you go to the swimming pool yesterday?” Macey asked me. whether Macey asked previous day. to the swimming pool the 36, He didn’t say anything although he was dissatisfied with the service at the hotel. spite He didn’t say anything at the hotel. with the service 37. [can’t stand people interrupting me when I'm studying. rather ra me when I'm studying. 38, We must return the books to the library by Wednesday. taken The books to the library by Wednesday. 39, The house will need painting before we move in. have We'll need before we move in. 40, Mike, I'd like to know the name of the hotel you stayed at which Mike, at? Al. Look, if she goes to the shopping centre by bus, she'll be there in ten minutes. take Look, _ ten minutes to go to the shopping centre by bus. ‘They didn’t let us feed the animals at the zoo. allowed We the animals at the zoo, ANSWER SHEET 37 722] iis aa Tenino 39 390, 1 2 0 foo 1 2) 41 41 0 oa aw)