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Can you use a computer? No, ...
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Do your friends know a good Italian restaurant? Yes, ...
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... are your two sons? They’re in America.
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... go to a restaurant. Yes, good idea.
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... is this book? £5 (= five pounds).
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... English people drink coffee?
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Your friend ... good English.
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Does your brother live in London? No, he ... .
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I often go to work ... train.
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Where ... she yesterday?
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Where were you yesterday? At the office, but Peter ... there.
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Where did you ... lunch last Tuesday?
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When ... you born? In 1965.
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... they go to the cinema yesterday?
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How old were you when you ... there?
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The film wasn’t good and we didn’t enjoy ... .
This part of the grading test consists of a short text to test your reading comprehension. Please read the text thoroughly. Subsequently you find a couple of statements about the text. Please decide whether these statements are RIGHT or WRONG. Afterwards tick the respective box on the answer sheet.
Laura and her husband Paul went on a holiday in Scotland last summer. They travelled there by train and visited a lot of interesting places. One night they camped near the sea. The weather was only awful on their last day and they went to the shops in Edinburgh. They wanted presents for their friends. Next year Laura and Paul would like to go to New York. One of Paul’s brothers lives there.
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Laura is Paul’s wife.
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The weather was good all the time.
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In Edinburgh they went to the shops for presents.
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Paul’s got two brothers in New York.
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Have you got a sister in New Zealand?
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Have you got ... brothers?
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How ... children has Peter got?
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Where ... David work?
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Thank you very much. ... .
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There aren’t ... hospitals near our house.
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Is ... a Japanese restaurant in your town?
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Can I help you with your bag? Oh, that’s ... .
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Would you like any help with your bag? No, thanks, I can ... .
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Would you mind ... me some coins for the phone, please?
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What would you like: ice cream or fruit salad? Oh, ... fruit salad, please.
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Will you be here next week? No, I ... .
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When I come back from my holidays, ... you.
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Sorry, I don’t understand that word. What ...?
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When I was a child, we ... live near the station.
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We’ve never been ... America.
On their last evening in London Laura and Paul went to an excellent restaurant for a good meal. Laura ordered fish as a main course because she was not so keen on meat. Paul had a steak with new potatoes and peas, his favourite vegetables. Laura didn’t drink any wine; she prefers beer. Paul had a glass of red wine with his steak. Laura asked for the bill and paid by credit card, because she only had ten English pounds in her bag. The waiter brought her the receipt. Then they walked back to their hotel.
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Laura doesn’t like meat very much.
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Laura usually drinks beer.
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Paul didn’t drink any beer.
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Laura didn’t have much money with her.
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Can I make an appointment? Certainly, ... about Friday morning at nine?
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Do you enjoy ... films on TV?
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The hotel is smaller ... the one in the town centre.
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... you bought any new books this week?
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I’d like to learn French. Why ... you go to France?
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Is this book interesting? Yes, it is. But I haven’t finished it ... . I’m only on page 35.
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Excuse me, I’d like ... information, please.
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How long ... in Paris last year?
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... I were you, I’d go to a good doctor.
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My brother can play the piano rather ... .
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Can I speak to Dr Smith? Sorry, ... to someone at the moment.
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I feel fine, so I ... go to the doctor again.
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If it rains, we won’t ... play tennis.
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The lady over there says this seat is ... and I say it’s mine.
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If the weather ... bad, he’ll come by train.
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They live near the station, ...?
Laura has just changed her job. Until last month she worked for a large American company in the centre of Frankfurt. The work was interesting, but she worked long hours. She often used to be at the office from eight in the morning to six in the evening or even later. Another problem was that she had to travel for more than an hour to work every day when the trains and buses were full and it was the same when she left the office. A third problem was that she didn’t earn enough.
A short while ago she found an ad in the newspaper. A computer company near where she lives wanted an office assistant. They offered a high salary. Laura went to an interview and they offered her a job. First she will have to take a computer course, but when she finishes the course next month, she can start work for the new company.
She is happy about the new job, of course. She’ll certainly earn more than she has done, she doesn’t have to work more than thirty-eight hours a week and she will get five weeks’ holiday a year, one week more than at her last job.
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Laura didn’t enjoy the work at her last job.
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She travelled in buses and trains for more than two hours every day.
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Laura has started her new job.
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At her new job Laura will have both better pay and more holidays than she had before.
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Have you bought the things ... we need for the party?
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It’s a good idea to see that film. Do you want ... the tickets?
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I don’t mind ... to bed late.
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Did you both enjoy ... at the party?
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Paul wanted to speak to the doctor yesterday, so he rang him. Sorry, what did you say? Who ...?
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I don’t like adventure films. – ... !
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Jim has his car ... at the garage before every holiday.
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If they ... so much, they’d feel better.
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In this book it says that the telephone ... by Alexander Graham Bell in the nineteenth century.
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What ... when I phoned you last night?
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Donna doesn’t often go to the cinema. She ... a new film since her last birthday.
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Do you live in London? How long ... there?
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We ... take a map with us because I know the way.
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When I was young, I used to learn new more ... .
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What ... next Friday evening? Would you like to come to dinner?
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We’re really looking forward ... you again.
Paul works in Frankfurt for an international business magazine. He writes reports on the situation of the money markets in Europe. He has to travel a lot for his job in order to get the necessary information, but he certainly doesn’t mind travelling. Actually, he met his future wife, Laura, during a flight from London to Rome.
A few evenings ago Paul got a late telephone call from his magazine. They wanted to send him to Tokyo for three months to write regular reports about the banks there. He really didn’t know how to tell his wife about the offer.
In the end they went to an expensive restaurant for a meal and Paul told her. Laura laughed – her company wanted to send her to Tokyo, too, where they had an office. She hadn’t found the right time to tell Paul about the offer they had made!
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Paul doesn’t like travelling.
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Paul and Laura only became friendly after they landed in Rome.
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Paul’s employers wanted to send him to Tokyo to write one or two reports.
80.
Laura had the same problem that Paul had.
