Practice Test (3)

The lawyer accused the prisoner .................... in his statement.

I went to university to get this degree in physics, which means I am now a .................... physicist.

The Egyptian tennis player got into the final .................... of the tournament.

The team .................... training together for months before they were given the chance to compete.

I expected my friend to help me, but he let me .................... .

When starting an email to a friend, it is a good idea to .................... .

Which expressions can you not use to start your final paragraph in an essay?

Which expressions introduce a sequence of ideas in an essay? There is more than one answer.

Which of the following is correctly structured?

This physicist, who broke all the stereotypes of the time, is now a much-admired role model for
many aspiring female scientists’. This could be part of an article about .................... .

Efficient teachers usually use different strategies to assess students’ .................... at school.

It is not easy to make Peter .................... his mind; he’s very stubborn.

Scientists are still trying to discover more and more about the .................... around us.

Which of the following sentences is structurally correct?

The government has designed a new system to .................... with the floods we sometimes have in
coastal cities.

My uncle .................... as a sales manager for twenty years, but now he has his own business.

A .................... is the place where people are buried.

I haven’t travelled to my village by train .................... my early childhood.

The police are looking for a/an .................... who has escaped from prison.

Which of the following is structurally correct?

Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

One of the following sentences can’t be used when you conclude an essay on the advantages
of the internet:

Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
Ever since human beings started creating new ways of doing things, there have been fears
they would be replaced by technology. However, in the twenty-first century technology is
helping us, not taking our place.
There have been fears that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may replace teachers. However, it
appears that teaching is a job which requires a great deal of emotional intelligence and
creativity which AI has not mastered yet. Having said that, it is true that AI will become an
essential tool for teachers for many of their day-to-day tasks.
Some Learning Management Systems use AI to make online teaching easier by reducing
teacher’s workload and helping them to be more productive, and therefore improving wellbeing.

This company offers the possibility of adapting learning plans to individual students and
creating course content based on the student’s needs. This will allow teachers and teaching
organisations to offer much more effective learning experiences for online students of the future.
In conclusion, AI will continue to offer help to teachers but will never replace them.

T he general idea of the text is .................... .

According to the passage, AI can .................... .

How does the text say AI can help teachers in the future?

Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

Learning Management Systems offer AI solutions which .................... .

Which expression in the text means ‘things you have to do every day’?

Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
When people retire, they will probably have been working for 40 years or more. But how
productive will they have been in that time? We have been studying productivity, and the
results are very interesting.
Working hours around the world vary, but people in Egypt work an average of 40 hours a
week and no more than 48 hours a week, which is similar to most other countries. In the USA,
however, many people working in technology and banking often work over 60 hours a week.
This could be because phones and laptops mean that people can work even when they are
not in the office.
However, a study by Professor Pencavel, from Stanford University in the USA, concluded that
these extra hours do not mean a person gets more things done. Professor Pencavel reported
that a person’s productivity declined very quickly after they had worked 50 hours a week. In
fact, a person doing 70 hours a week did the same amount of work as a person doing 55 hours.
There have been several studies into the effects of work on health. The economist, Nolan
Pope, studied how the time of day affects productivity, and he found that people are naturally
more productive at certain times of the day: in particular, before around 1 pm. There have
been many other studies into workplace stress, and these indicate that long work hours are
linked to exhaustion, burnout and poor health.
In conclusion, to aid our health, it is important that we work around the hours of the day
when we are most productive and this should help make us happier.

The best title for the passage is “....................”.

According to the passage, we should .................... .

The economist, Nolan Pope, .................... .

People in Egypt work an average of nearly .................... hours a day, six days a week.

Extra working hours do not .................... .

According to the passage, working hours in Egypt are .................... most other countries.

People’s productivity could decline after they work 50 hours a week. “Decline” is an antonym of
.................... .

The underlined word “these” in the third paragraph refers to .................... .