FIRST CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH D055/3

for Schools

PAPER 3 Use of English

Practice Test 1

Time 45 minutes

Additional materials:
Answer sheet

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.
Write your name, Centre number and candidate number on your answer sheet
if they are not already there.
Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully.
Answer all the questions.
Read the instructions on the answer sheet.
Mark your answers on the answer sheet. Use a pencil.
You must complete the answer sheet within the time limit.
At the end of the test, hand in both the question paper and your answer sheet.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

There are 42 questions on this paper.
Questions 1 – 34 carry 1 mark.
Questions 35 – 42 carry 2 marks.

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 Use of English • Part 1

For questions 1 – 12, 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).

Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Example:

0 A regard B consider C realise D think

0 A B C D

Do bigger animals run faster than smaller animals?

Most people (0) the cheetah to be the fastest land animal. It can (1) a top running speed

of 120 km/h, though it cannot (2) this for very long. And in comparison with some smaller animals,

cheetahs take a long time to build up speed.

New research has shown that for many land animals, as (3) as running fast is concerned, it’s best

to be neither very large nor particularly small. It’s actually preferable to be something in between. A team of

scientists studied monitor lizards to test how size (4) speed. Monitor lizards were an (5)

choice because when they are (6) grown, the adult lizards vary (7) in size. The researchers

filmed monitors (8) from one to five kilos in weight as they ran along a 15-metre track. The

researchers discovered that the medium-sized lizards were the fastest.

They then created computer models comparing the different (9) in which the lizards ran. Up to a

(10) size, the bigger a lizard was, the faster it ran. But (11) above that size, perhaps

because their bones and muscles were less able to support a larger body mass, they had to change their style of

running, (12) them slower.

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 1 A arrive B obtain C achieve D complete

2 A keep B maintain C last D preserve

3 A long B well C far D much

4 A affects B controls C involves D concerns

5 A expert B ultimate C effective D ideal

6 A totally B fully C completely D entirely

7 A widely B largely C strongly D broadly

8 A extending B going C ranging D stretching

9 A methods B ways C techniques D means

10 A precise B fixed C definite D certain

11 A while B now C since D once

12 A making B getting C causing D forcing

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 Use of English • Part 2

Read the text. Think of the word which best fits in each space (13 – 24).

Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

Flying to save the Ibis

Some bird conservationists in Germany are currently conducting an unusual experiment with the

endangered bird called the Northern Bald Ibis. They’re trying to teach fourteen young birds of the species

all about (13) to go to spend the winter – by flying along with them!

For several months now, the conservationists (14) spent their days and nights watching the

birds, feeding them and (15) care of them all. (16) the Ibis usually come from the

Middle East and North Africa, this group of birds were all born in a zoo. (17) a result, they have

absolutely (18) idea how to go about migrating to warmer countries during the winter. Their

human foster parents are therefore planning to guide these birds from Germany to Italy by leading

(19) way – in the tiniest aircraft that the conservationists (20) find!

Their ‘mum and dad’ are currently training the birds by travelling in the air beside (21) while

they’re flying – but they’re finding that one (22) two of the birds don’t always follow the plane!

However, most do, and the scientists are hoping that new methods like (23) one can help

endangered birds return to their usual habitats and protect them (24) extinction.

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 Use of English • Part 3

Read the text. For questions 25 – 34, use the word at the end of the line to form a word that fits in each space.

Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

The design of zoos

Architects often have to deal with the demanding requirements of difficult clients.
Laila Durrani’s customers sleep through (25) and they don’t even use DISCUSS
bathrooms so they are almost (26) to work for. Nevertheless, Durrani puts POSSIBLE
up with this (27) behaviour. Why? Because she designs homes for zoo POLITE
animals at San Diego Zoo.

Private zoos have been in existence for centuries. Hundreds of years ago, it was
(28) for wealthy people to keep exotic animals in their gardens to impress FASHION
their friends. Public animal parks first appeared in European cities in the late 1700s
and the (29) zoo in the United States opened in 1874 in Philadelphia. EARLY

Until a few decades ago, most zoos were organised by creature – cats in one
area, birds somewhere else. But in recent years, there has been an emphasis on
grouping animals that would (30) interact in the wild. Moreover, instead NATURE
of confining animals behind bars, most (31) are creating landscapes DESIGN
that resemble the (32) in which these creatures would be found. Jilin SURROUND
Province in China was the (33) for a new area of San Diego Zoo created INSPIRE
by Durrani.

The exhibit features a wide (34) of animals, including several that haven’t VARY
been seen at the zoo before, such as Amur leopards and wild boars.

Turn over

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 Use of English • Part 4

For questions 35 – 42, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. For each
question, you must use between two and five words, including the word in capitals. Do not change the word in
capitals.

Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

35 ‘Don’t dive off the rocks – it’s very dangerous,’ the lifeguard told the boys.

WARNED

The lifeguard dive off the rocks because it was very dangerous.

36 It hasn’t rained for over a month.

ANY

There for over a month.

37 They didn’t let us eat anything on the bus.

ALLOWED

We anything on the bus.

38 If the school basketball team hadn’t performed badly in the second half of the match, they would have won it.

SO

The school basketball team’s in the second half of the match that they
didn’t win it.

39 The students were told they should do some preparation before the lesson.

SUPPOSED

The students done some preparation before the

lesson.

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 40 Do you know whose bike that is?

BELONGS

Do you know to?

41 I will only play tennis if you help me with my homework first.

UNLESS

I you help me with my homework first.

42 Diana wasn’t allowed to go to the party on Saturday.

LET

Diana’s parents refused go to the party on Saturday.

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