FCE PRACTICE TESTS PLUS 1 TEST 1 PAPER 3 PART 4

FCE PRACTICE TESTS PLUS 1

TEST 1 PAPER 3

PART 4

For Questions 41-55, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick () by the number on the separate answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on the separate answer sheet. There are examples at the beginning (0 and 00)

 

	0	______ On lovely sunny days in the summer, many of people in London
	00	______ go along to one of the beautiful parks. Most of them go there
	41	______ just to sit around and relax themselves with friends, but I prefer
	42	______ something such more active. For me, one of the most exciting
	43	______ things to do is flying a kite. 't's amazing how much fun you
	44	______ can have with a small and piece of material on a long piece of
	45	______ cord. The best thing about kites is that, unless you will want
	46	______ one that can do lots of fancy tricks to impress your friends,
	47	______ they don't cost a very lot of money. You need a day when
	48	______ there's a good strong breeze. To get it the kite flying, you have
	49	______ to unwind a few metres of the cord and then get a friend to
	50	______ hold the kite up while you to get a good grip on the handles.
	51	______ Then, you start running towards the wind, that making sure your
	52	______ friend lets go at the more right moment. As the wind catches
	53	______ the kite, unwind the cord and watch the kite climb by higher
	54	______ and higher. Keep a good hold so you don't lose it and, of
	55	______ course, avoid trees, unless you're be good at climbing!

 

ANSWER KEY

41	themselves; relax is not followed by a reflexive pronoun.
42	such; ‘something more’ does not need such.
43	CORRECT
44	and: wrong word separates adjective from noun.
45	will: ‘unless' is never followed by a Future simple.
46	CORRECT
47	very: 'very much money' would be correct, but here 'very 'is wrong
48	it: you do not need the pronoun 'it' because you have 'the kite'.
49	CORRECT
50	to: you need the infinitive without 'to' here.
51	that: 'that' does not refer to anything here, the subject of 'making' is 'you'.
52	more: the expression is 'at the right moment'
53	by: this particle is not used with 'higher'
54	CORRECT
55	be: You can only have two forms of the verb 'to be' together in a passive voice (e.g. 'You are being watched').