PART 2, PAPER ONE, CAMBRIDGE FIRST CERTIFICATE:
COMPREHENSION
Exercise answers. To achieve a pass grade in the FCE, you need to have five or six of the nine questions correct.
1. Which title best sums up the stories in the passage?
A. Life on the Farm
B. How to be a Journalist
C. Stranger than Fiction
D. Selling Newspapers
2. Which adjective best describes this type of newspaper story?
A. untrue
B. expected
C. standard
D. important
3. The incident of the man killed by bees might have
A. made a good horror movie.
B. been caused by pollution.
C. happened because the insects were poisoned.
D. occurred because of a new type of bee.
4. The British post office parcel delivery service is
A. cautious.
B. dangerous.
C. efficient.
D. slow.
5. Zoo staff took home pieces of the bear cub
A. by gambling for it.
B. according to their seniority.
C. by bidding at auction.
D. according to the size of their families.
6. According to Mr Singh, trying to catch stray dogs is
A. an expensive operation.
B. a difficult job.
C. important to the town.
D. an endless task.
7. Attacks by dogs on humans have increased because
A. there are more dogs around.
B. there is a fashion for owning bigger dogs.
C. the dogs are hungry.
D. the dogs roam in packs.
8. Meat is safe if you
A. wash it thoroughly.
B. don't freeze it.
C. cook it until it is overdone.
D. stick to eating steak.
9. It seems that the disease can be transmitted to humans because
A. it has travelled from sheep to cattle.
B. people who eat sheep's eyes get it.
C. people eating sheep get it.
D. it is in the brain.
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