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For questions 31-45, read the text 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 at the end of the line. If the line has a word which should not be there, write the word at the end of the line. There are two examples at the beginning (0) and (00).

BECOMING A WRITER

0 Harry Barber got his degree in Philosophy, which his professor *

00 he never believed he would ever manage, and decided to see the he...

31 world. Having been wandered aimlessly from one country to another,

32 Harry finally settled in Australia where he tried to make it his name ………

33 as a writer. Harry, some whose stories were based on his travels ………

34 around the world, stayed up until the early hours of the morning, ………

35 hoping inspiration would come. Although that he had sent off a ………

36 few stories to magazines, only one yet had been published, which ……….

37 he was encouraging but it didn’t pay the bills. He was forced to get ………

38 himself a part-time job washing dishes but, in spite of the fact that .………

39 as the work was menial and left his mind free for his more ……….

40 creative activity. Harry felt tired when he got to home that ……….
41 all he wanted to do was sleep. However, even he had got himself .………

42 an agent with whom he was on the good terms. Harry hoped his ……….

43 first novel it would change his luck. However, when his ……….

44 agent saw the first draft of the book, he advised Harry to rewrite ……….

45 most of the chapters which he found too slow - people they wanted ..……...

fast-moving novels nowadays, he said.

Task 4

For questions 46-55, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

SPEAKING ENGLISH WELL

I have a Dutch friend who speaks English beautifully (0). I have BEAUTY

always wondered how the Dutch manage to learn languages

so …………. (46). The Dutch, like the Germans, often speak SUCCESS

English …………( 47) than some native-speakers or at WELL

least they seem to speak the language more …………. (48) CORRECT

than some English people. Will says if you want to speak

English ………….. (49) with a reasonable accent, you should FLUENCY

listen to tapes as ………….. ( 50) as possible. If you can afford FREQUENCY

………… (51) to go to an English speaking country, OCCASION

you should also study the rules of English …….. (52), CARE

especially if you want to speak ……….. (53). Will also ACCURACY feels very ………. (54) that there are no magic solutions STRENGTH

but that you ……….. ( 55) have to work hard at the new SIMPLICITY

language. ​

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