UNIT 9 (READING) PART VI STARTER TOEIC 3RD EDITION

STARTER TOEIC 3^RD EDITION

UNIT 9 (READING) PART VI

PART VI. INCOMPLETE TEXTS

Questions 1 through 4 refer to the following notice.

The mayfield High School Football team is 1. (A) looking (B) hunting (C) researching (D) seeking for three new players. We are currently leading in the High School League and hope to maintain our position. If you think you are 2. (A) enough good (B) good enough (C) enough (D) good to help take our team to the top for the tenth year in a row, come along to the football try-outs next Friday. We will be holding the try outs on the athletics field between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. If this is too early for you, then you 3. (A) isn’t (B) are not (C) have not (D) are the kind of person we are looking for. All regular practices start at 7 a.m., and the team practices 5 days a week. We would like to encouage all students who made it to the short list last time 4. (A) try (B) to try (C) trying (D) tried again.

Questions 5 through 8 refer to the following information.

You are never too young or too old to get involved in sports and exercise. In fact the sooner you start to 5. (A) exercising (B) sport (C) sporty (D) exercise, the better. According to some recent research, people who started sports at a young age were more likely to keep it uup as they get older. This applied whether they were involved in 6. (A) competition (B) competitive (C) competing (D) competitions sports or not. In fact, people who did sports just for fun when they were younger were about 7% more 7. (A) like (B) likeable (C) likely (D) liking to keep exercising when they were older. Researchers believe this might be because some young people get burnt out from competition. However, even people who gave up sport because they felt burnt out tended to return to exercising 10. (A) few (B) a few (C) a (D) another years later. So start exercising now, if you want to be strong and healthy later.

Questions 9 through 12 refer to the following article.

New Greenham soccer team manager, Ernie Williams, showed that he knows what he is doing with a great game 9. (A) to (B) on (C) in (D) at Sunday. The players played the game strategically and scored goal after goal, 10. (A) winning (B) losing (C) having (D) starting the match 5-0. The other team tried and tried to score, but goalkeeper Mike Alan didn’t let the ball anywhere near the net. He made some amazing saves and the crowd cheered as he jumped higher than seemed possible. 17 year-old striker Greg Fleming played his first game for the team, and he was 11. (A) a excellent (B) a terrible (C) an excellent (D) a bad choice. He was responsible for two of team’s five goals. We can expect great things from him if he keeps up the pace. With his good looks, there are rumors of a modelling contract in the near future. Let’s hope this doesn’t 12. (A) prevent (B) distract (C) stop (D) alter him from the game.

ANSWER KEY

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