Read the instructions to the Exam Task.
1 What do you have to read?
2 What do you have to choose?
3 Where do you mark your answers?
Look at the title of the text and make guesses about it.
The Roman Baths
1 Is it a story or a text about facts?
2 Does something good or bad happen?
3 Make one guess about what happens.
Read the text quickly and check your guesses.
Don't worry about the numbered spaces for now.
Were your guesses correct?
Look at the sample answer below
Why are the other answers not possible?
Does this question test grammar or vocabulary?
Look at Questions 26-35 and choose the answers for the ones you are certain about.
For each question:
read the whole of the sentence which contains the space
write the word you choose in the space it may help you to understand the text.
Go back and do the other answers.
Check your work.
When you have finished, read the text again all the way through. Do your answers make sense?
Mark your answers on your answer sheet. Check that you have put them in the right place.
Part 5
Questions 26-35
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
Example: 0 A takes B introduces C offers D brings
The Roman Baths
The city of Bath (0) takes its name from the public baths (1) ____ were built there by the Romans. By the middle of the first century, they’d already (2) ____ planning the baths. The biggest bath, (3) ____ as the Great Bath, was (4) ____ a swimming pool. In the next 300 years, the Romans (5) ____ the baths with changing rooms, a sauna and other smaller baths.
They used to come there not only to wash (6) ____ also to meet friends. The baths were, in (7) ____ , at the heart of Roman life. This way (8) ____ life ended in the year 400 when the Romans left Britain. By that time, they’d built towns, roads and bridges across Britain. The Great Bath was discovered again in the eighteenth century after being buried for years and the baths then (9) ____ as famous as they had been in Roman times. Many tourists (10) ____ visit the baths today.
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