FCE Practice Test Plus 1 Use of English Test 5 Paper 3 Part 1

FCE Practice Test Plus 1

Use of English

Test 5 Paper 3 Part 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 (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example

MUSIC

Nobody knows for certain what the (0) ………. of music was. Music is certainly older than poetry and painting but as early man had no way of (1) ………. it, we can only (2) ………. what it sounded like. Watching a child (3) ………. on a drum with its hands or a (4) ………. of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not (5) ………. much effort to produce a rhythm on it. Wall painting show what some of the first instruments (6) ………. like. Early civilisations had already discovered the three basic (7) ………. of producing music; blowing into a tube, striking an object, and scrapping a string. We know the western music comes from the (8) ………. Greeks. The musical scales we use now are (9) ………. on certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create a particular (10) ………. Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were (11) ………. performers, but as music became more (12) ………. orchestras and musical groups began to (13) ………. This (14) ………. about the writing music to be played by several musicians at one time. This can certainly be (15) ………. the birth of modern music.

1	A	recording	B	playing	C	producing	D	performing
2	A	think	B	reckon	C	guess	D	realise
3	A	hitting	B	knocking	C	crashing	D	banging
4	A	slice	B	point	C	piece	D	shape
5	A	make	B	call	C	take	D	do
6	A	looked	B	appeared	C	felt	D	sounded
7	A	forms	B	manners	C	systems	D	ways
8	A	ancient	B	old	C	aged	D	antique
9	A	raised	B	based	C	established	D	supported
10	A	spirit	B	temper	C	mood	D	humour
11	A	separate	B	lonely	C	unique	D	single
12	A	widespread	B	enlarged	C	expanded	D	extended
13	A	turn	B	appear	C	spring	D	be
14	A	produced	B	affected	C	caused	D	brought
15	A	appointed	B	called	C	decided	D	named

ANSWER KEY

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
A	C	D	C	C	A	D	A	B	C	D	A	B	D	B