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Hands off my Lunch!” says young inventor

For Questions 1-14, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

The Fox and the Goat

One hot summer day a fox was very thirsty. He was _____1_____ some water to drink. At last he ran up to ____2_____ old well. The water was out of his reach. When he was trying to get the water he ____3_____ into the well. The water was not deep and he began to drink _____4_____ once. When he had drunk enough, he tried to get _____5____. But the sides of the well were high, and he ____6______ not ____7_____ the top.

After the fox ____8_____ there for a long time he heard a noise. That was a goat ____9____ came to the well. The goat saw the fox and asked, “What ___10___ down there?” “Oh, I ___11___ the water. It’s ___12____ fresh. Come down here.” The goat was _____13____ to listen to the fox, and jumped down. After the goat had got into the well, the fox climbed ____14____ the goat’s back and got out of the well. Then he turned round and went away.

1. A) looking after

B) looking for

C) looking at

D) looking into

1. A) a

B) an

C) the

D) any

1. A) fell

B) had fallen

C) falled

D) was falling

1. A) by

B) at

C) to

D) on

1. A) from

B) out of

C) off

D) out

1. A) might

B) could

C) should

D) ought

1. A) get

B) approach to

C) reach

D) come up

1. A) was being

B) has been

C) is

D) had been

1. A) who

B) whose

C) when

D) how

1. A) you are doing

B) do you do

C) did you do

D) are you doing

1. A) drink

B) drank

C) am drinking

D) am drunk

1. A) so

B) enough

C) such

D) much

1. A) silly enough

B) enough silly

C) silly very much

D) so silly

1. A) on

B) to

C) up

D) down

Task 2

For questions 15 – 24, read the text below. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in the space provided.

Kim had always been the 15) ………. (bright) student in her class and had never worried before her exams.

But the week before the finals she felt 16) ………………….. (nerve) and 17) ………………… (easy).

18) …………………… (unfortunate) for her, the first exam she was taking was Physics – the subject she didn’t feel very good at. Some 19) ……………. (study) in her class thought that it was a very 20) …………………. (importance) subject but she didn’t see any 21) …………………….. (practice) use in it.

Since her 22) ……………… (child), reading was Kim’s hobby. Kim preferred literature to other subjects and wanted to become a 23) ………………. (write) or a journalist, not a 24) ………………. (science). And journalists don’t need Physics, do they?

Task 3

For questions 25 – 30, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Hands off my Lunch!” says young inventor

The 12-year-old school boy 25) _________ New Zealand invented a special lunchbox alarm to catch the thieves red handed!

Nic put a small siren and a radio transmitter into his drink carton 26) ______________ placed the carton inside his lunchbox. 27) ____________ anyone opens the lunchbox, the siren goes off and gives the thief a nasty shock. Nic also carries a small radio 28) __________ him, so he can hear the alarm wherever he is!

Nic 29) _________ awarded a prize in the “Bright Sparks” competition for inventors last year. He has been on TV and radio shows in his home country as well as 30) _________ Britain and the US.