ESL B2 Level MCQ Test With Answers HIGH INTERMEDIATE TEST 3

B2 MOCK EXAMINATION - Use of English and Reading Sections

SECTION 1

Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences.

I’m going to have to apologise to him, ______?

Some pipelines ______ and they’ve closed the road until the work ______.

______ suffering from jet lag, he wanted to go out and do some sightseeing around Sydney.

He turned off his mobile phone ______ disturbed during the meeting.

She couldn’t help ______ sorry for the man as he was so embarrassed by his mistake.

I ______ all of August with my parents in Wales this year.

Look! The warehouse over there is ______. Call the Fire Brigade immediately.

In the middle of his speech, he stopped ______ a sip of water.

By the end of the month, all tests on the new machine ______ and it will be ready for launching.

He ______ offered a job with better working conditions. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have resigned.

Isn’t it high time he ______ to stand on his own two feet instead of relying on others?

When he comes home from his holiday in Thailand, he’ll be very surprised to see his front door ______ bright pink as a joke by his friends.

His office light is on but he ______ late tonight! It’s his wedding anniversary. He probably forgot to switch it off when he went home.

When she was young, her mother ______ with the housework.

He wishes his neighbour ______ his son a set of drums for his birthday.

______ in the country? I bet you’re finding it quiet after living in the town centre for so many years!

SECTION 3

Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

He didn’t turn a _______ when she told him she was leaving him. He must have been expecting it.

As it was such a long journey, they _______ for a night about halfway there.

I tried to read the classic she lent me but I found it was too ______ and eventually gave up after about thirty pages. I decided that a good thriller was much easier to read!

The train was hot and I was exhausted, and I ______ and missed my station.

Hello! I was at ______ and decided to pay you a visit.

Since he moved to London, I only see him once in ______ when he comes to visit his grandparents.

The children are getting very restless! Why don’t they go out to play and let ______?

You’ll have to shout. She’s as deaf as a ______.

Those children are completely out ______! Why don’t their parents make them behave better?

Some important scientific breakthroughs come about purely ______ while scientists are aiming at doing something different.

I wish he wouldn’t keep clicking his pen. It’s getting ______.

Sheila has such a ______ belief that she’s no good at maths that she refuses even to attempt to understand it.

SECTION 5

(Please note: The following questions are related to a specific reading passage, which is available solely before the first question. Remember, it may be helpful to refer back to the reading text while answering the questions to ensure accuracy.)

Read the text and answer the questions.

GHOSTS IN PHOTOS?

Strange figures and objects sometimes mysteriously appear in films or in snapshots. Sceptics explain them away by saying they are tricks of light, double or long exposures, reflections or digital trickery.

However, a few of the unexpected additions to photos and films defy an easy explanation. Cameras filming streets for the Web recently captured what appeared to be a woman, dressed in Victorian clothes, moving across the square. An eccentric person, you may say, the world is full of them. It happened in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, now redeveloped into a fashionable area with a theatre, clubs, exhibition halls, waterside restaurants and expensive apartments, but once a slum area notorious for murders, violence and unsolved mysteries. The area is also part of the setting for the Torchwood series, a spin-off of Dr Who, and it may have been an extra still wearing the clothes used in filming. The only unexplainable thing was that only three-quarters of the lady was visible and she seemed to float above the pavement before vanishing into thin air.

Ghostly images are not confined to the historical; a misty shape captured on film in New Jersey seems to be an ‘ET’ kind of image, with an oblong-shaped head, long neck and fat body, standing next to a thin bluish-white beam of light. Other photos taken in different parts of the world at varying times are of strange lights or objects flying overhead in formation. Planes, reflections, air balloons, digital tricks or UFOs?

However, most of the strange images are historical in nature. Two photos snapped by people visiting Tantallon Castle, a ruined 14th-century fortress on the east coast of Scotland, both seem to contain ghostly figures which had not been seen by the people taking the pictures. The first, taken over thirty years ago, shows a typical family group and, behind them, what looks like a female figure in a dress of the Tudor period looking out of a half-ruined window.

One sceptic said, ‘When the picture is enlarged, it is quite obvious it is a woman in a pink jacket coming down the stairs with a shopping bag.’ The second picture is more mystifying. It was taken at the same location as the first in May last year and shows a man or a woman in 15th-century clothes staring out of a window at the photographer. No costumed mannequins or guides were at the castle at the time and experts have ruled out the possibility of digital alterations.

These two photos were among the many ‘ghost’ pictures a panel of experts discussed as part of a project for the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Professor Wiseman, who led the group, had previously set up a Web competition for the ‘best ghost image’. Over two hundred and fifty photos were sent from all over the world and more than a quarter of a million people voted for what they considered the most convincing picture. Professor Wiseman said that although he was a sceptic about ghosts, he was puzzled by the second Tantallon photo, which won the competition by getting 39% of the votes.

He said, ‘I suppose it could be a visitor looking a little strange. Perhaps someone will come forward. Another possibility is an odd reflection of light, but it does look very much like a person. The explanation is not obvious.’

Some of the other photos included one taken at a house where there had been sightings of a ghostly four-year-old child. It showed the face of a child between the legs of the group of friends being photographed. Another, taken at a castle twenty years ago, appears to show the transparent figure of a headless ghost dressed in an old-fashioned army coat standing in front of two children playing on a cannon. Sceptics concluded that this photo could have been the result of double exposure.

Even if most of the strange images in films and photos can be explained away in a logical manner, interpretations fundamentally seem to depend on whether the person looking at the photo is a believer or a non-believer in ghosts and other mysteries.

Strange images in photos and films ______.

Tiger Bay _____.

The woman filmed in the Tiger Bay area was mysterious because _____.

Some of the strange images captured on film _____.

Which statement is correct?

The first Tantallon Castle photo _____.

The second Tantallon Castle photo _____.

Professor Wiseman _____.

Amongst the other photos submitted was one of _____.

Belief in the ghostly images seems to depend on _____.