Higher levels test (for exam groups)

Many teachers ....... their students should learn a foreign language.

Learning a second language is not the same ....... learning a first language.

It takes ....... to learn any language.

It is said that Chinese is perhaps the world's ....... language to master.

English is also difficult because of the exceptions ....... have to be learnt.

You can learn quite quickly, but only if you ....... make an effort.

A lot of people aren't used ....... grammar in their own language.

Many adult students wish they ....... learning earlier.

In some countries students have to spend a lot of time working ....... .

There aren't ....... easy ways of learning languages in your own country.

Some people try to improve their English by ....... the BBC World Service.

....... with a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language.

It's no use ....... to learn a language just by studying a dictionary.

Many students of English would ....... take tests.

Some people think it's time we all ....... a single international language.

In some countries ....... very hot all the time.

In cold countries people wear thick clothes ....... warm.

....... people don't know what it's like in other countries.

Very ....... people can travel abroad.

In England ....... time of year is usually from December to February.

In England people are always talking about ....... .

Water ...... at a temperature of 100°C.

....... people don't know what it's like in other countries.

In some places ....... almost every day.

Countries near the Equator have ....... weather even in the cold season.

Where ....... this beautiful hat?

Mohammad Ali ....... his first world title fight in 1960.

After he ....... an Olympic gold medal he became a professional boxer.

His religious beliefs ....... change his name when he became champion.

If he ....... lost his first fight with Liston, none would've been surprised.

He has travelled a lot ....... as a boxer and a famous personality.

He is very well known ....... the world.

Many people ....... he is the greatest boxer of all time.

To be the best ....... is not easy.

Like any top sportsman he ....... train very hard when he was fighting.

Though he has lost his title, we ....... always remember him as a champion.

Charles Walker teaches at a comprehensive school in Norwich. He .......

the staff of the school in 1978 and ....... there ever since.

Before ....... to Norwich, he taught in Italy and in Wales,

and before that he ...... a student at Cambridge University.

So far he ...... in Norwich for as long as he was in Wales,

but he likes the city a lot and ...... like to stay there for two more years,

or, ...... he puts it,

until his two children ...... grown up a bit.

He met his wife, Kate, while he ...... abroad for a while, and they got

married in 1976. Their children, Pat and Sue, ...... both born in Norwich.

The Walker’s boy, ...... is four, has just started at nursery school,

but his sister ...... at home for another couple of years,

because she is nearly two years ...... than him.

Charles and Kate Walker ...... to live in the country,

but now they have children they ...... into the city.

Charles wanted a house ...... the school

...... get to work easily.

Unfortunately, ...... one the two of them really wanted was too expensive,

so they ...... buy one a bit further away.

By the time the children ..... to secondary school,

...... Charles and Kate hope will be in Norwich,

the Walkers ...... living there for at least fifteen years.

They can’t be sure if they ....., but if they

..... their friends won’t be too surprised.

John’s coming to see you, .....?

It’s been a long time since you’ve seen him, ......?

He’s due to arrive tomorrow, ......?

He won’t be getting in till about 10.30, ......?

You met him while you were on holiday, ......

No doubt you’d rather he stayed in England now, ......?

Nobody else has been told he’s coming, .....?

We’d better not stay up too late tonight, ......?

I suppose it’s time we called it a day, .....?

I think I’m expected to pick him up, ......?

The history of ...... is

...... short one. For many centuries men

...... to fly, but with

...... success. In the 19^th century a few people

succeeded ...... in balloons. But it wasn’t until

the beginning of ...... century that anybody

..... able to fly in a machine

..... was heavier than air, in other words, in

...... we now call a plane. The first people to achieve “powered flight”

were the Wright brothers. ...... was the machine which was the forerunner

of supersonic airliners that are ...... common sight today.

They ...... hardly have imagined that in 1968,

...... more that half a century later, a man

...... landed on the moon.

Already ...... is taking the first steps towards the stars.

Although space satellites have existed ...... less than forty years,

We are now dependent ...... them for all kinds of

...... .

Not only ...... being used for scientific research in space,

but also to see what kind of weather ...... .

By 1998 there ...... have been satellites in space for over 45 years

and all space powers are planning to ..... massive space stations built.

When these ...... completed, it will be the first time

...... astronauts will be able to work in space in large numbers.

...... all that, in many ways the most

remarkable flight ...... all was

...... of the flying bicycle, which the world saw on television,

...... across the Channel from England to France,

with nothing ...... a man to power it.

As the flyer said, “It’s the first time ...... what hard work it is to be a bird!”