Cambridge KET Test 44 - Reading & Writing

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Chloe wrote this message because _____

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Young people's holiday activities

A. Sarah

Sarah likes holidays by the sea where she can rest all day. She doesn't like doing sports or going sightseeing. She likes to go to bed early in the evening and wake up late in the morning. When she wakes up, she goes to the beach and stays there all day, until about 5 p.m. She usually travels with her friends, so she spends most of her day talking to them. At lunchtime, she only has a sandwich and some orange juice. In the evening, she goes back to her hotel to have a shower and change clothes. She then goes into town with her friends where they have supper at a local or a fast-food restaurant.

B. Jane

Jane loves going on holiday to places which have a lot of old buildings. Before each journey, she always likes to buy a guidebook, so she knows where she can go and what things to see. She especially likes looking around old castles and learning about how people lived hundreds of years ago. Jane also likes to look around different museums. To eat a meal, she will always go to restaurants which cook local food. She hates eating burgers and other unhealthy snacks.

C. Gemma 

Gemma is a great fan of dangerous sports. Every time she goes on holiday, she likes doing some very dangerous activities. One of the activities she likes is climbing up the side of a high mountain without any help. She also likes going on a small boat down a very fast and dangerous river. She tries to do a different dangerous activity every day when she's on holiday. She tries to be careful but once she ended her holiday in hospital and was taken home in an ambulance.

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Joe Brown: being a writer

I wrote my first stories when I was about 12, but I really didn't know how good they were. My friends weren't interested, but my teacher sent some of them to a national magazine for children. The magazine didn't want them, but then my mum heard about a competition while she was listening to the radio. So I sent in one of my stories and it won first prize! Then I thought, "I can do this".

During my years at school, I continued writing when I had time. Then when I left school, I went to university. I didn't study writing - I studied French and Spanish. After university, I worked in a bookshop and in a library, but I wanted to write again. I decided to move to France.

At first, I worked as a waiter. I worked every day except Sunday. I wrote my novel on Sundays and in the evenings!

I love writing and I'm never bored. I spend a lot of time alone, but this isn't a problem for me. I've finished my second novel now and I've got ideas for another, but I wanted a break first so I've come home to England for a while.

My parents live in London, I have a brother in Liverpool and my sister lives in a village in the countryside. I'm staying with my parents, but this weekend, we're all going to go to my sister's house to have a family party.

(Adapted from CE Key for School Exam Trainer)

When he was a waiter, Joe worked _____

Joe is going to meet his family in _____

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Acting since childhood

The actor Dakota Fanning started her acting career at the early age of five. As a child, she starred in major films 19.1aslikewhere War of the Worlds, Charlotte's Web, The Cat in the Hat, Hound Dog, and as a teenager in the extremely popular Twilight series. She is different from many actors who started acting as children because she 19.2ishaswill continued her success. 19.3EveryFewMany people often wonder what life is like for child actors away from the big screen and the lights. Perhaps it would surprise you to learn that Dakota was a regular teenager. She was a member of the girl scouts and learned 19.4infromto speak French. She loved 19.5watchedwatchingwatch films and even collected dolls. She liked to knit and could also play 19.6theawith violin. And her dream was always to be an actor. She doesn't sound much different from most children, does she?

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Hi Sylvia, 

I'm glad to hear (0) that you like your new school in Paris. What's it like? Is it bigger 20.1 your old school here in Bristol? It must be hard to listen to everyone speak French all the time, but I'm sure it will get easier 20.2 a few months. 

20.3 your new classmates friendly? What about the teachers? Do they give you a 20.4 of homework? Send 20.5 some pictures, please! 

Well, I 20.6 to go now.

Write soon!

Andrew

You want to meet your English friend, Jane, for lunch this weekend.

Write an email to Jane. In your email,

• suggest meeting for lunch this weekend
• say when you would like to have lunch
• say where you would like to have lunch.

Write 25 words or more.

Look at three pictures. Write the story shown in the pictures. Write 35 words or more.