Variant 2

For questions 1–15, read the text below and decide which word А, В, С or D best fits each space. Mark your answers in the answer boxes provided.

At home abroad

Every year tens of thousands of people travel to Britain in order to improve their (0)... of English. For many, however, this can be a difficult and daunting experience as it involves 1)... a strange school, staying in sometimes unpleasant accommodation, and living in an 2)... culture. One 3)... to these problems is the Homestay method. Students, 4)... a teacher appropriate to their language requirements and interests, will stay with him or her in his or her own house for the duration of the course. As well as giving 5)... tuition, the teacher will take the student on trips and provide information about what interesting activities are 6)... locally.

The idea behind "Homestay" is total immersion in English language and culture. Students get between ten and twenty hours of tuition a week and are also expected to 7)... in with the family's daily activities. The students converse in English at all 8)... and learn how to use the language in everyday 9)... . Homestays can also be arranged for those wanting to 10)... business or executive English courses. Students are then 11)... with a teacher who is a specialist in the student's particular 12)... . Courses 13)... for up to four weeks and, although costs are 14)... than for normal language summer schools, students can feel 15)... that they will be receiving top-class language teaching in a safe and pleasant environment.

	A	B	C	D
0.	average	standard	height	degree
1.	attending	studying	going	learning
2.	unaccustomed	unusual	unfamiliar	inexperienced
3.	explanation	result	solution	key
4.	selected	chosen	granted	assigned
5.	individual	single	exclusive	particular
6.	obtainable	ready	available	accessible
7.	join	come	be	take
8.	periods	hours	days	times
9.	affairs	problems	conditions	situations
10.	make	be	do	learn
11.	matched	coupled	doubled	equalled
12.	ground	way	field	type
13.	go	move	range	run
14.	bigger	higher	wider	larger
15.	confident	reliant	self-assured	reliable

For questions 1–15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number in the answer boxes provided. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in the answer boxes provided. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

HOLIDAY ON THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA

0	Last summer I spent ten of days at a fantastic	of
00	hotel on the island of Jamaica.	√
1	The Jamaica is an exotic island in
2	the Carribean. The name of the
3	hotel was called "Inland Fun". It certainly
4	was fun. I met a lot of young people. We
5	went for swimming every day and dancing
6	every night. My room was as large and
7	decorated in a typical island style.
8	The walls were painted with white, the window
9	and door frames were been painted a magnificent
10	blue and all the furniture was made up
11	of hand-carved wood. The hotel also had
12	a lovely dining room, delicious food on,
13	and a bar on the roof. It
14	was the most best holiday I ever had and I'm
15	planning to go to Jamaica again the next summer too.