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Level Test Intermediate B2

1. USE OF ENGLISH. Circle the correct answer.

1. ……. on holiday since I was 10 years old.

a) I haven’t been
b) I haven’t go
c) I didn’t been
d) I didn’t gone

2. A motorbike …… a car
a) doesn’t cost so much as
b) doesn’t cost much as
c) doesn’t cost much than
d) doesn’t cost as much as

3. I told him ……
a) don’t’ go there
b) not to go there
c) don’t to go there
d) that he doesn’t go there

4. I wish …..
a) you haven’t said that.
b) you didn’t said that.
c) you hadn’t said that.
d) you don’t say that.

5. …… after the accident.

a) He had repaired his car.
b) He had his car repaired.
c) He repairs his car.
d) He did his car repaired.

6. Don’t forget …… on her birthday!

a) to call your mother
b) calling your mother
c) call your mother
d) calling to your mother

7. If you had asked me ….. to the cinema with you.

 a) I might had gone
b) I might have been
c) I might have gone
d) I might would gone

8. …… very early.
a) They are use to go to bed
b) They usually to go to bed
c) They are used to go to bed
d) They are used to going to bed
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9. If I ….., I would have passed the test.
a) Studied
b) Have studied
c) Had studied
d) Did studied

10. ….. a doctor’s appointment on Monday at 9.30 am.

a) I have
b) I am having
c) I will have
d) I am going to have

2. PREPOSITIONS. Is this sentence correct? If it is not, write down the

right answer:

11. I have never been in Scotland.

a) False
b) Correct

12. What do you think on my new haircut?

a) False
b) Correct

13. The stranger stared at me in surprise.

a) False
b) Correct

14. Jack depends to his father to give him the money.

a) False
b) Correct

15. The attractive woman smiled at me.

a) False
b) Correct

16. I’m not on the mood for such silly games.

 a) False
b) Correct

17. We bought the TV because it was on sale.

a) False
b) Correct

3. KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION. Take the information in the first

sentence and re-write it, using the word in bold so that the second
sentence has exactly the same meaning. You must use a minimum of
TWO and a maximum of FIVE words for each space.

18. You seem to have picked up English very quickly.

Advantage

It looks like you …………………………………………………….……. your

chance to learn English.

19. Chris isn’t here. He went to lunch fifteen minutes ago.

Gone
Chris isn’t here. He ……………………………………………….……… lunch.

20. Were you able to speak English as a child?

How
Did you………………………………………………………………… English when
you were a child?

21. Look at how black the sky is! There is rain arriving.
rain
Look at how black the sky is! It ………………………………………....……..!

22. What a shame. There is no food left!

Wish
I ……….………………………………………………………………...…….. left.

23. The teenagers were stealing my bike when I arrived.

Being
My bike ……………………………….…………… teenagers when I arrived.
 24. My advice to you is to talk to your parents.
Would
If …………………………………………………………. Talk to your parents.

25. Recently I have gone off eating fish as I have eaten it too much.
On
I am not so……………………………………………………………….fish recently
as I eat it too often.

4. READING. Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from
the sentences (A-G) the one which best fits each gap (1-5). Use each letter
only ONCE. There are TWO extra sentences you DO NOT need to use.

What we ballet dancers do is instinctive, but instinct learnt through a decade of

training. A dancer’s life is hard to understand, and easy to misinterpret. Many a
poet and novelist has tried to do so, but even they have chosen to interpret all
the hard work and physical discipline as obsessive. And so the idea persists
that dancers spend every waking hour in pain, bodies at breaking point, their
smiles a pretence.

As a former dancer in the Royal Ballet Company here in Britain, I would beg to
question this. (…..)
With expert teaching and daily practice, its various demands are easily within
the capacity of the healthy human body. Contrary to popular belief, there is no
need to break bones or tear muscles to achieve ballet positions. It is simply a
question of sufficient conditioning of the muscular system.

Over the course of my dancing life I worked my way through at least 10,000
ballet classes. I took my first at a school of dance at the age of seven and my
last 36 years later at the Royal Opera House in London. In the years between,
ballet class was the first thing I did every day. It starts at an early age, this daily
ritual, because it has to. (…..) But for a ballet dancer in particular,
this lengthy period has to come before the effects of adolescence set in, while
maximum flexibility can still be achieved.

Those first classes I took were remarkably similar to the last. In fact, taking into
account the occasional new idea, ballet classes have changed little since 1820,
when the details of ballet technique were first written down, and are easily
recognised in any country. Starting with the left hand on the barre, the routine
unrolls over some 75 minutes (….). Even the leading dancers have to do it.

These classes serve two distinct purposes: they are the way we warm our
bodies and the mechanism by which we improve basic technique. In class after
class, we prove the old saying that ‘practice makes perfect’. (….)
And it is also this daily repetition which enables us to strengthen the muscles
required in jumping, spinning or lifting our legs to angles impossible to the
average person.
 The human body is designed to adapt to the demands we make of it, provided
we make them carefully and over time. (….). In the same way, all those years of
classes add up to a fit-for-purpose dancing machine. This level of physical
fluency doesn’t hurt; it feels good.

(…) But they should not be misled: there is a difference between hard work and
hardship. Dancers have an everyday familiarity with the first. Hardship it isn’t.

GAPS

a. Through endless tries at the usual exercises and frequent failures, ballet
dancers develop the neural pathways in the brain necessary to control
accurate, fast and smooth movement.
b. The ballet shoe offers some support, but the real strength is in the muscles,
built up through training.
c. As technology takes away activity from the lives of many, perhaps the ballet
dancer’s physicality is ever more difficult for most people to imagine.
d. Ballet technique is certainly extreme but it is not, in itself, dangerous.
e. The principle is identical in the gym – pushing yourself to the limit, but not
beyond, will eventually bring the desired result.
f. No one avoids this: it is ballet’s great democratiser, the well-established
members of the company working alongside the newest recruits.
g. It takes at least a decade of high-quality, regular practice to become an
expert in any physical discipline.

5. LISTENING. You are going to hear eight short unrelated extracts. There is
one multiple-choice question per extract.

1. You hear a teacher talking to her class. What is she doing?

a) Explaining the results of a competition
b) Thanking them for taking part in an event
c) Encouraging them to complete a challenge

2. You hear two friends talking about learning to ski. What do they agree bout?
a) How much fun the classes are
b) How difficult it is to learn the techniques
c) How physically tiring the activities can be

3. You hear a sports instructor talking to an athletics class. What does he say
about the current long jump record?
a) It hasn’t been broken for a long time
b) It will be difficult to break
c) It’s something he has tried to break himself

4. You hear a girl telling a friend about lessons on eating and exercising that she
has done at school. How does she feel about what she has learned?
a) Doubtful that some of the advice will benefit her
b) Surprised by some of the information
c) Keen to try out a suggestion

5. You hear a student talking to his sports teacher about getting fit. What would
the boy like to do?
a) Take part in a competitive sport
 b) Use some gym equipment
c) Find a training partner

6. You hear two friends talking about a TV programme they have watched. What
does the woman think about it?
a) It contained some useful tips
b) It raised surprising arguments
c) It discussed interesting new research

7. You hear an expert talking about what being healthy really means. She believes
that many people have a mistaken idea about…
a) How important social contact is
b) How much exercise they need
c) How important it is to have a good diet

8. You hear a fitness expert talking about warming up before exercise. He says
that people don’t always warm up because they…
a) Have not been educated about its importance
b) Want their exercise sessions to be quick
c) Don’t enjoy preparation exercises

6. LISTENING. You will hear FIVE speakers. You’ll hear five different people
talking about computer games. For speakers 1-5, choose one topic (a-f)
from the list of their views on computer games. Use each option ONLY
ONCE. There is ONE EXTRA option which you do not need to use.

Speaker 1 -

Speaker 2 -

Speaker 3 -

Speaker 4 -

Speaker 5 -

TOPICS

a. Hasn’t lived there very long

b. Has lot of friends in the area
c. Regrets moving there
d. Is thinking about leaving the area
e. Thinks the area has become dangerous
f. Is moving somewhere else
g. Will settle here in the area
h. Too much noise around the area