English as a Foreign Language Admission Exam
Name: ................................. Date: …………………………..

PART L Reading Comprehension
Read the article and do the exercises below.
Liam's Story
I was really pleased when I won a local radio competition for two tickets to see a Reef concert. My parents
said it was OK for me to go, provided I took my sister, Shona, with me. She's three years younger than I am
and my parents have always made me take her everywhere I go. It was all right when we were kids but as I
got older and wanted to do different things, she began to embarrass me.
When I said I wanted to take my best friend Gavin and not Shona, Dad took my side, but Mum was
annoyed and didn't agree. Of course, Shona was desperate to go and made a big fuss about it, and Mum said
I ought to make more of an effort to be nice to her.
The day of the concert came and I was really excited. When Gavin and I were ready to leave, Shona started
crying. I got annoyed with her, told her to go to the gym club and left the house without saying goodbye.
After the concert we were so happy that we didn't notice how worried Gavin's father was. He was waiting
to pick us up in his car. Then he told me that he had some bad news for me. Apparently Shona had had an
accident crossing the road on her way to the gym club. She was in hospital and her condition was pretty
serious.
I couldn't sleep that night -1 felt terrible. I just lay thinking about Shona. I kept turning things over and
over in my mind -1 should have let her come with me to the concert and I shouldn't have been so nasty to
her.
In the end Shona made a good recovery and came home three weeks later. Although Mum and Dad say I
shouldn't blame myself and that it wasn't my fault, I still feel really guilty.


Ex.1. Choose the best answer.
1. Liam didn't take his sister to the concert because:
a) he had an argument with her.
b) his sister had a gym class.
c) he wanted to go with his friend.
3. Liam thinks the accident was:
a) his fault.
b) his sister's fault
c) his parents' fault
2. When Liam and his sister were kids:
a) they went together everywhere.
b) they studied together.
c) their parents weren't nice to them.
4. In the end Liam's sister:
a) blamed him for causing the accident.
b) became well again.
c) didn't want to go home.


Ex.2. Answer the questions.
5. How did Liam get tickets for the Reef concert?............................
6. How did Shona behave when Liam was leaving for the concert?
7. How did Liam react? .....................................................................
8. How had the accident happened? ..................................................
9. How does Liam feel? ....................................................................
Ex.3. Pay attention to the words underlined in the text ( competition, embarrass, excited, pick up, pretty,
recovery ) and complete the following sentences with them.
10. My brother took part in the teenage chess .............................. in Madrid at the end of the year.
11. "You will make a quick .............................. after the operation,' the doctor explained.
12.1 can't manage to .................. you ............ today. I'm busy finishing my project.
13. It's .............................. cold outside this morning. Take your hat and gloves.
14. The kids were very .............................. about the boat trip to the village.
15. Sorry for asking that question! I didn't want to .............................. you.

PART II. Use of English
Ex.1. Circle the correct item.
One Saturday afternoon last winter I decided to go with a friend of (1).................. for a bike ride. (2) .................. was very cold. We were cycling along a country lane (3) .................. we saw some children playing on a frozen pond.
Suddenly we heard a shout. To our horror one of the boys (4) .................. fallen through the ice! We immediately rushed over to help but it was (5) .................. dangerous to walk across the (6) .................. . My friend and I went to (7) .................. a ladder. I put the ladder on the ice (8) .................. crawled across it towards the boy. I caught hold of his (9) .................. and finally managed to pull him (10) .................. of the icy water. Luckily the boy wasn't (11).................., just very frightened.
His parents turned (12) .................. about ten minutes (13) .................. . When they saw him, they were shocked and very angry (14) .................. him! I felt sorry (15) .................. the boy. He had certainly learned a lesson - the hard way!

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b) It
b) while
b) is
b) to
b) ice
b) land
b) and
b) hand
b) to
b) asleep
b) on
b) ago
b) to
b) to
c) mine
c) And
c) where
c) have
c) too
c) river
c) borrow
c) although
c) finger
c) down
c) there
c) up
c) since
c) for
c) for
d) hers
d) Their
d) how
d) had
d) not
d) road
d) borrowed
d) despite
d) umbrella
d) out
d) lonely
d) down
d) already
d) with
d) with
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2. a) There
3. a) when
4. a) were
5. a)enough
6. a) water
7. a) lend
8. a) but
9. a) hat
10. a) on
11. a) hurt
12. a) off
13. a) later
14. a) at
15. a) at

Ex.2. Use the correct tense form.
Charles Walker is a teacher at a comprehensive school in Norwich. He (16)
....................................... (join) the staff of the school in 1978 and (17) ....................................... (work) there ever since. Before (18) ....................................... (move) to Norwich he (19) ....................................... (teach) in Italy and Wales, and before that he (20) ....................................... (be) a student at Cambridge University. So far he (21) ...................................... (be) in Norwich for as long as he was in Wales but he (22) ....................................... (like) the city a lot and (23) ....................................... (like) to stay there for at least another two years.
He (24) ....................................... (meet) his wife, Kate, in 1972 while he (25) ....................................... (live) abroad for a while, and they (26) ....................................... (get) married in 1976. Their two children. Mark and Susan, (27) ....................................... (be) both born in Norwich.
At the moment Charles and his family (28)....................................... (prepare) their luggage for the trip they (29) ....................................... (take) at the end of the week. This time next Monday they (30)....................................... (lie) in the sun on the island of Corfu.