FCE PRACTICE TEST Use of English (1)

FCE PRACTICE TEST

Use of English (1)

For Questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (O). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

TREES FOR LIFE

Trees are amongst the biggest and longest-living things on Earth, some (O) ……… back longer
than the oldest buildings. But (1) ……… being nice to look at, trees also (2) ………   an important
role in improving the quality of our lives.

On a world-wide (3) ………  , forests help to slow down the effects of global warming by using up the gas(4) ……… as carbon dioxide and giving (5) ……… the oxygen we need to breathe. At local neighbourhood level, trees also (6) ……… important environmental benefits. They offer shade and shelter, which in (7) ……… reduces the amount of energy needed to heat and cool (8) ……… buildings; at the same time, they also remove other impurities from the air we breathe.

Urban trees are especially important because for many people they provide the only daily (9) ……… with the natural world. What's (10) ………, urban trees also provide a home for birds, small animals and butterflies. (11) ……… the trees we would lose the pleasure of seeing these creatures in our cities. Regrettably, (12) ………, trees in cities are now coming under (13)....... There is a limit to the level of pollution they can (14) ……… and, down at street level, their roots are being seriously (15) ……… by the digging needed to make way for modern telephone, television and other cables.

1	A	as far as	B	as long as	C	as soon as	D	as well as
2	A	play	B	show	C	act	D	serve
3	A	scale	B	size	C	range	D	area
4	A	called	B	known	C	titled	D	referred
5	A	in	B	away	C	up	D	out
6	A	bring	B	make	C	take	D	find
7	A	turn	B	place	C	order	D	reach
8	A	opposite	B	close	C	next	D	nearby
9	A	junction	B	touch	C	contact	D	taste
10	A	more	B	else	C	most	D	other
11	A	Throughout	B	Beyond	C	Without	D	Outside
12	A	therefore	B	whilst	C	however	D	despite
13	A	risk	B	threat	C	danger	D	warning
14	A	stand in for	B	face up to	C	put up with	D	fall back on
15	A	concerned	B	disturbed	C	interfered	D	involved

ANSWER KEY

1.     D

‘as far as’, ‘as long as’, and ‘as soon as’ do not make sense.

2.     A

Only ‘play’ collocates with ‘role’.

3.     A

The expression is ‘on a scale’. The other words do not collocate.

4.     B

‘known’ would need to be followed by ‘as’,  ‘referred’ would need ‘to as’.

5.     D

‘give out’ means ‘send out or emit’. ‘Give in / away / up’ have other meanings.

6.     A

'Bring' is the only one that collocates with 'benefits' here.

7.     A

The phrase 'in turn' is the only one which means 'has the effect of'.

8.     D

'Opposite' and 'close' collocate grammatically but their meaning is wrong.

9.     C

‘contact’ collocates with ‘with the world’. The others do not.

10.  A

'What's more' is a set phrase and no other word collocates here.

11.  C

'Without' is the only word that goes with 'we would lose the pleasure'.

12.  C

‘Therefore’ fits grammatically but not semantically. ‘Whilst’ and ‘despite’ are completely wrong.

13.  B

Come under threat' is an expression. The other words do not collocate.

14.  C

We need an expression that means 'to bear': 'put up with'.

15.  B

roots cannot be 'concerned'; 'interfered' would need 'with' after it; the meaning of 'involved' makes it wrong.