Variant 2 reading Part 3

For questions 1—6, read the following text and then choose from the list A—I given below the best phrase to fill each of the spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all.

How to queue

At some time or another, all of us have had the experience of waiting in a queue. And, let’s face it, queueing is a serious occupation, governed by a set of unwritten rules that seem to cross cultures with remarkable ease. To join a queue, you need to judge distance very accurately. Allow the same amount of space (1) .... is a good piece of advice to remember. Leave too much space, (2) .... through which people pass. If you’re in a long queue, you must all look in the same direction. It simply isn’t done to face backwards, (3) .... for the person behind you. Long queues nudge forward gradually, and it is vital that you take every centimetre (4) …You can’t wait until a couple of metres of space have opened up in front of you (5) .... to revert to your original position, because the person behind you will wonder what on earth you are doing. Some queues can lose their lineal shape, and may look a little messy to the casual observer. But rest assured that every single person in the queue has made a mental note of exactly who is where. That’s why queue-jumpers are so frowned upon, (6)…

A and you’ll never get your place back B when presented with the opportunity to do so C as they offend people’s deep sense of fair play D as you would to shake hands with a stranger E unless you’ve got a very attractive back of the neck F and then make a big leap forward G when some poor loser joins the queue behind you H as this amounts to an invasion of privacy I and you’ll become that horrible gap in the queue

Variant 2 english in use Part 1

For questions 1-7, read the text below. Use the words in the boxes to the right of the text, listed 1-7, to form one word that fits in the same numbered space in the text. The exercise begins with an example (0).

NEW PLAN TO PUSH VEGETABLES A national (0) scheme will start in schools across Britain this autumn as a result of ……(1) research into that most difficult piece of childhood diplomacy: how to persuade youngsters to make the right ……(2) when offered fruit and vegetables or chocolate and chips. With the use of a ……(3) video and some old-fashioned…(4), psychologists at the University of Wales managed to increase by five times the number of fruit and vegetables eaten by groups of primary-aged school children whose previous eating habits had been labelled as ‘most……(5)’. ……(6) projects in three schools last year produced huge increases in the ……(7) of fruit and vegetables with children still eating their greens six months after the end of the study.

0 nation 1succeed 2 choose 3 promote 4 bribe 5 health 6 try 7 consume