A lucky picnic
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.
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 example (0) and read the first sentence of the text carefully.
Example: 0
A go
B gone
C went
D going
What is the answer to the example?
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 and choose the correct word for each space.
For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D.
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Example: 0 ● A go | ● B gone | ● C went | ● D going
A lucky picnic
When I was a child we used to (0 .............. to my grandmother’s house. We often had a picnic in a wood which was (26).................. of wild flowers. We always used to go to the (27)...................place. One day when we had finished our picnic, my mother noticed that she had (28).................. her ring, ( 29 ) ..................... had her initials inside it.
We looked everywhere for it and we carried on until it was dark and we had to give (30)............... . Thirty years later, I was on holiday with my own children and we (31)............. the same wood. We decided to have a picnic there. It was my son who made it a lucky day. He was bored with the picnic (32).................. he started digging a hole (33)...................a tree. Suddenly, he (34).................... up a ring. It had some writing inside it and we all (35)...................it was my mother’s ring. She was really happy when we gave it back to her!
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