Practice KET (A2) Reading and Writing Test 7

Test 7 Reading and Writing Part 1

Questions 1-6
For each question, choose the correct answer.

Hi Dave,
A Dave and Mike will go to the game together.

I hope you can still play football today.

The time of the game has changed to B Mike thinks Dave wants to change the time of the
5.00 p.m. See you there. game.

Mike C Mike wants Dave to know the time of the game.

2
WANTED: Cleaner
A Somebody wants a cleaner with no experience.

No experience needed B Somebody wants a cleaner and experience is not

important.
Must be hard worker
Phone: 07654 321111 C Somebody wants a hard-working cleaner with no
experience.

3
To: Diana
From: Ruth A Ruth will come to the meeting after it starts.

B Ruth wants Diana to wait for her before the

Diana, meeting.
Sorry, I will be late for our meeting C Ruth will start the meeting later than she planned
today. Please start the meeting without to start it.
me and I will join you when I can.

Ruth
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Special Supermarket Offer!

A After 5 p.m. bananas will be more expensive.
Today only! B You can only buy bananas today.
5 bananas for £2
C Before 5 p.m. there is no special offer.
Offer ends at 5 p.m.

5
Henry,

I forgot eggs. We don’t need many, but I A Monika wants to bake a cake.
want you to bake a cake. Can you get
some on your way home? B Monika wants Henry to buy eggs.

Monika C Monika doesn’t need eggs.

LATE NIGHT A On Mondays you can shop at 9 p.m.

SHOPPING! B On Fridays you can only shop after 8 p.m.

Until 8 p.m. in the week and until 10 C On Saturdays and Sundays you can shop at 9
p.m. at the weekend p.m.
Test 7 Reading and Writing Part 2

Questions 7-13

For each question, choose the correct answer.

Alan Rod Ben

7 Who doesn’t have a favourite sport? A B C

8 Who was very good at a sport that was not their favourite? A B C

9 Who had extra lessons in a sport? A B C

10 Who says their body size helps them do a sport? A B C

11 Who has enjoyed football all their life? A B C

12 Who likes to play with a group of other people? A B C

13 Who says they are good at only one sport? A B C

Talking about Sport

Alan

I started playing tennis when I was five years old, but I was never very good at it. My parents really
wanted me to do well and paid for me to have lessons outside school, but I always preferred football.
I’m good enough to be in a top local team. With tennis, I could never hit the ball where I wanted it to go
– it was always too high or too far. Finally, my parents let me stop going to tennis lessons and I’ve
spent my time playing football since then.

Rod

My favourite sport has always been rugby. I’ve tried other sports and I was good at tennis. I won a
tennis competition at school and my sports teacher told me that I was an excellent tennis player. But I
didn’t enjoy it as much as rugby because I like being part of a team. So I stopped playing tennis when I
was about thirteen. My teacher and parents thought I should continue with it, but I preferred rugby.

Ben

I’ve always played a lot of sport. It’s an important part of my life, and since I left school I do a wide
variety of different types of sports – golf, rugby, tennis and football. I’m quite good at all of them, but I
can’t really say that I enjoy one of them more than the others. I’m probably best at rugby because I’m a
big person, and it is hard to stop me when I’m running fast.
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Questions 14-18
For each question, choose the correct answer.

A very clever family

The Smiths are possibly the cleverest family in the country, and now the youngest member, ten-year-
old Charlotte, has won a national spelling competition to add to the family’s successes. Charlotte is the
youngest ever winner of the National Young Spelling Bee Competition – the youngest winner before
her was her older sister, Helen, who won it when she was eleven.

Charlotte and Helen’s older brother, Mark, is also very clever. He finished school early and went to
university at the age of fifteen, three years before most young people start their university studies. The
children’s parents, Charles and Vivien, are both teachers and say their children’s success comes from
working hard, playing hard and following strict rules about homework and bedtimes.

‘Other people think that Charles and I don’t let the children have any time to relax and play, and that
we’re always making them do their homework. But it’s not true!’ says Vivien. we have lots of fun time in
the family. But there’s a time for fun and there’s a time for work, and we make sure the children
understand that work comes before play.’

When Charlotte took part in the spelling competition the whole family, including her grandparents, went
to watch her. Helen took off a day from school – the first day in her life that she missed going to school.
‘I felt bad about missing school,’ Helen said, ‘but I think it was important to Charlotte that I was there.’

14 Charlotte won the spelling competition

A after her sister.
B when she was eleven.
C when she was older than Helen.

15 Most people
A go to university early.
B are like Mark when they go to university.
C start university at the age of eighteen.

16 Charles and Vivien help their children by

A letting them relax and play any time they want.
B making them do their homework before they relax.
C not letting them have any time to relax and play.

17 When Charlotte won the competition,

A Helen missed it because she was at school.
B all the family were there, but not her grandparents.
C her brother, sister, parents and grandparents were watching.

18 Helen said that

A Charlotte wanted her to be at the competition.
B Charlotte missed school for the competition.
C Charlotte thought competitions were more important than school.
Test 7 Reading and Writing Part 4

Questions 19-24
For each question, choose the correct answer.

The History of Cars

Cars have a long and interesting history. It is difficult to (19) …………… when the first car was made.
Most people (20) …………… that it was made by Karl Benz in 1885. Then in the early twentieth
century, cars (21) …………… widely available.

One of the first cars that it was (22) …………… for ordinary working people to buy was the Model T
Ford, made by Henry Ford in the USA. Henry Ford found a way of making a large number of cars
quickly and cheaply, and this changed the way that people thought about how to manufacture things.
By 1927, Ford had (23) …………… 15 million cars.

Today, car-making (24) …………… jobs to millions of workers. But the world is changing, and the
future of cars is far from clear.

19 A say B talk C believe

20 A allow B agree C arrive

21 A turned B started C became

22 A possible B general C ready

23 A sold B spent C shown

24 A has B wins C gives

Test 7 Reading and Writing Part 5

Questions 25-30

For each question, write the correct answer.

Write ONE word for each gap.

Example: 0 a

From: Helen
To: Henry

Hi Henry,
I hope you’re well. I’m having (0) …………… birthday party next week and I hope (25) …………… can
come. It’s (26) …………… Friday evening from 8.00 p.m. until late. I’m having it (27) …………… home
to keep things simple. I’m asking everyone (28) …………… bring some food to share. Can you bring
something too? If so, (29) …………… me know what you will bring. Then I can tell the others to bring
(30) …………… different.

See you soon,

Helen