ESL B2 Level MCQ Test With Answers HIGH INTERMEDIATE TEST 3

B2 MOCK EXAMINATION - Use of English and Reading

Sections SECTION 1: Choose the correct alternatives to 5. She couldn’t help _______________ sorry for the man as
complete the sentences. SECTION 2: Complete the second he was so embarrassed by his mistake.
sentence so that it means the same as the first. (No MCQs)
SECTION 3: Choose the correct alternative to complete the A) to feel
sentences. SECTION 4: Complete the text with the correct B) to feeling
form of the word in brackets. (No MCQs) SECTION 5: Read
the text and answer the questions. C) that she was
D) feeling

1. B2 MOCK EXAMINATION - Use of English and

Reading Sections SECTION I Choose the correct
alternatives to complete the sentences. I’m
going to have to apologise to him, _________________ 6. I _____________ all of August with my parents in Wales
? this year.

A) Am I A) spend
B) Don’t I B) will be spending
C) Aren’t I C) have been spending
D) Won’t I D) will have spent

2. Some pipelines _____________ and they’ve closed the 7. Look! The warehouse over there is
road until the work ___ . ______________________ . Call the Fire Brigade
immediately.
A) are laying ...... has been finished
B) are being laid ..... has been finished A) in fire
C) have laid ..... is finished B) on flames
D) are laid ..... is being finished C) fired
D) on fire

3. ______________suffering from jet-lag, he wanted to go

out and do some sightseeing around Sydney. 8. In the middle of his speech, he stopped
________________ a sip of water.
A) In spite of
B) Although A) having
C) However B) to have
D) Nevertheless C) that he had
D) to having

4. He turned off his mobile phone

_______________________disturbed during the meeting. 9. By th end of the month, all tests on the new machine
__________ and it will be ready for launching.
A) for not being
B) so as not to be A) will have been completed
C) for not to be B) will be completing
D) not being C) have completed
D) are going to complete

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10. He __________offered a job with better working 15. He wishes his neighbour ________________ his son a
conditions. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have resigned. set of drums for his birthday.

A) can be A) doesn’t give

B) must have B) didn’t give
C) must have been C) hadn’t given
D) may be D) wouldn’t have given

11. Isn’t it high time he _________________to stand on his 16. in the country? I bet you’re finding it quiet after living
own two feet instead of relying on others? in the town centre for so many years!

A) is learning A) Do you get used to live

B) learnt B) Did you use to living
C) learns C) Are you getting used to living
D) has learnt D) Are you used to live

12. When he comes home from his holiday in Thailand, 17. SECTION 3 Choose the correct alternative to
he’ll be very surprised to see his front door complete the sentences. He didn’t turn a _______
___________ bright pink as a joke by his friends. when she told him she was leaving him. He must
have been expecting it.
A) was being painting
B) has been painted A) page
C) was been painted B) leaf
D) is painting C) nose
D) hair

13. His office light is on but he___________ late tonight!

It’s his wedding anniversary. He probably forgot to 18. As it was such a long journey, they _______ for a night
switch it off when he went home. about half-way there.

A) mustn’t be working A) stopped off

B) shouldn’t be worked B) broke up
C) may not to work C) cut off
D) can’t be working D) ended up

14. When she was young, her 19. I tried to read the classic she lent me but I found it
mother______________________ with the housework. was too ______________and eventually gave up after
about thirty pages. I decided that a good thriller was
A) made her help much easier reading!
B) has made her help
A) badly-read
C) was making her to help
B) narrow-minded
D) made her helping
C) heavy-going
D) easy-going

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20. The train was hot and I was exhausted, and I 25. Those children are completely out _________! Why
_________________________ and missed my station. don’t their parents make them behave better?

A) overslept A) limits
B) wrapped up B) of orders
C) laid off C) of turn
D) dropped off D) of control

21. Hello! I was at _____________________ and decided to 26. Some important scientific breakthroughs come about
pay you a visit. purely ______________ while scientists are aiming at
doing something different.
A) random
B) a loose end A) chancy
C) a tight corner B) by accident
D) the end of a tunnel C) at loggerheads
D) for case

22. Since he moved to London, I only see him once in

____ when he comes to visit his grandparents. 27. I wish he wouldn’t keep clicking his pen. It’s getting
_______________________.
A) the clouds
B) while A) down my nose
C) a blue moon B) on my nerves
D) moonlight C) off my mind
D) off my chest

23. The children are getting very restless! Why don’t

they go out to play and let ________________? 28. Sheila has such a ________belief that she’s no good at
maths that she refuses even to attempt to
A) off steam understand it.
B) the cat out of the bag
A) firm-set
C) the town be painted red
B) rootless
D) down the dumps
C) deep-rooted
D) long-term

24. You’ll have to shout. She’s as deaf as a

______________.

A) bat
B) bell
C) post
D) door

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29. SECTION 5 Read the text and answer the

questions. Ghosts on photos? Strange figures and
objects sometimes mysteriously appear on films or in
snapshots. Sceptics explain them away by saying 30. Tiger Bay __________________.
they are tricks of light, double or long exposures,
reflections or digital trickery. However, a few of the A) is an area where murders and violence are
unexpected additions to photos and films defy easy common
explanation. Cameras filming streets for the Web
B) has changed its character since the area was
recently captured what appeared to be a woman,
dressed in Victorian clothes, moving across the redeveloped
square. An eccentric person, you may say, the world C) is a poor area full of mysteries
is full of them. It happened in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, now D) has become notorious since it was redeveloped
redeveloped into a fashionable area with a theatre,
clubs, exhibition halls, waterside restaurants and
expensive apartments, but once a slum area
notorious for murders, violence and unsolved
mysteries. The area is also part of the setting for the
Torchwood series, a spin-off of Dr Who, and it may 31. The woman filmed in the Tiger Bay area was
have been an extra still wearing the clothes used in mysterious because ___________________________.
filming. The only unexplainable thing was that only
three quarters of the lady was visible and she A) she was one of the principle actors in the
seemed to float above the pavement before Torchwood series
vanishing into thin air. Ghostly images are not B) she was a fashionably-dressed eccentric
confined to the historical; a misty shape captured on
C) the image was incomplete and it seemed to
film in New Jersey seems to be an ‘ET’ kind of image,
with an oblong-shaped head, long neck and fat body, disappear
standing next to a thin bluish-white beam of light. D) the woman had vanishing legs
Other photos taken in different parts of the world at
varying times are of strange lights or objects flying
overhead in formation. Planes, reflections, air
balloons, digital tricks or UFOs? However, most of the
strange images are historical in nature. Two photos
32. Some of the strange images captured on film
snapped by people visiting Tantallon Castle, a ruined _____________________________.
14th century fortress on the east coast of Scotland,
both seem to contain ghostly figures which had not A) include the film ET
been seen by the people taking the pictures. The
first, taken over thirty years ago, shows a typical B) are not historical in character
family group and, behind them, what looks like a C) have a fat misty figure in a beam of light
female figure in a dress of the Tudor period looking D) have been photographed all over the world
out of a half-ruined window. One sceptic said, ‘When
simultaneously
the picture is enlarged, it is quite obvious it is a
woman in a pink jacket coming down the stairs with a
shopping bag.’ The second picture is more
mystifying. It was taken at the same location as the
first in May last year, and shows a man or a woman
in 15th century clothes staring out of a window at the 33. Which statement is correct?
photographer. No costumed mannequins or guides
were at the castle at the time and experts have ruled A) The two Tantallon Castle photos definitely show
out the possibility of digital alterations. These two the same figure.
photos were among the many ‘ghost’ pictures a B) The two Tantallon Castle photos are historical.
panel of experts discussed as part of a project for the
Edinburgh International Science festival. Professor C) Tantallon Castle was ruined in the 14th century.
Wiseman, who led the group, had previously set up a D) The people who took the Tantallon Castle photos
Web competition for the ‘best ghost image’. Over two were unaware there was another figure present when
hundred and fifty photos were sent from all over the
they took the photos.
world and more than a quarter of a million people
voted for what they considered the most convincing
picture. Professor Wiseman said that although he was
a sceptic about ghosts, he was puzzled by the second
Tantallon photo, which won the competition by
getting 39% of the votes. He said, ‘I suppose it could
be a visitor looking a little strange. Perhaps someone
will come forward. Another possibility is an odd
reflection of light, but it does look very much like a
person. The explanation is not obvious.’ Some of the
other photos included one taken at a house where
there had been sightings of a ghostly four-year-old
child. It showed the face of a child between the legs
of the group of friends being photographed. Another,
taken at a castle twenty years ago, appears to show
the transparent figure
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34. The first Tantallon Castle photo 36. Professor Wiseman _ .

________________________.
A) is sure the second Tantallon Castle photo is of a
A) is not as inexplicable as the second strange-looking visitor or a reflection of light
B) has been denounced as digital manipulation B) says that both Tantallon Castle photos are puzzling
C) is of a woman carrying a shopping bag and her
family C) is sure the image at the window is of a real person
D) was taken last May
D) is dubious about the existence of ghosts

35. The second Tantallon Castle photo _.

A) shows the same figure as the first, but more 37. Amongst the other photos submitted was one of _ _.
clearly A) headless children playing on a cannon
B) was voted the most ‘convincing’ in the Web B) two children on a cannon seen through a soldier
competition without a head
C) probably includes a mannequin or a guide dressed C) a child’s face on some friends’ legs
in 15th century clothes D) a double exposure of two children
D) was taken shortly after the first

38. Belief in the ghostly images seems to depend on .

A) whether the photo has been altered

B) logic
C) whether a person is predisposed to believe in
ghosts and mysteries
D) the incredulity of the photos

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Answer Key:

1: C 20: D
2: B 21: B
3: A 22: C
4: B 23: A
5: D 24: C
6: B 25: D
7: D 26: B
8: B 27: B
9: A 28: C
10: C 29: D
11: B 30: B
12: B 31: C
13: D 32: B
14: A 33: D
15: C 34: A
16: C 35: B
17: D 36: D
18: A 37: B
19: C 38: C

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