B2 Use of English Test 20 – multiple choice gaps
For questions 1-9, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
Planes can make it rain
Living next to an airport has always meant having to (1)…………… the noise of planes landing and taking off. Now it seems that (2)…………… residents also have bad weather, according to a (3)…………… published study.
The scientists looked at satellite (4)…………… of clouds above airports, and also studied computer models of the way clouds behave. What they found was that as a plane flies through a very cold cloud, the air behind it expands and then cools (5)…………… rapidly. This sudden drop in temperature, (6)…………… with the hole formed in the cloud where the plane has passed through, can increase the (7)…………… of rain or snow on the ground.
In the case of major airports, with hundreds of flights every day, this can have a significant (8)…………… on weather patterns up to 100 kilometres away. The researchers point out, however, that aircraft passing through clouds are (9)…………… to affect the global climate.
1 A keep out of B put up with C miss out on D stand up for
2 A neighbouring B close C local D surrounded
3 A lately B recently C lastly D freshly
4 A images B figures C aspects D portraits
5 A totally B extremely C entirely D perfectly
6 A joined B attached C composed D combined
7 A forecasts B certainties C chances D opportunities
8 A result B influence C consequence D impression
9 A doubtful B unsure C unlikely D improbable
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1B
2 C: this completes the expression ‘local residents’.
3 B: the expression ‘recently published’ (with or without a hyphen) is often used with books, studies, research etc.
4 A: ‘satellite images’ is a common phrase also used in, for example, weather forecasting.
5 B: none of the others can be used with the adverb ‘rapidly’.
6 D: the preposition ‘with’ often follows ‘combined’ to mean ‘together with’.
7 C: B-D can all be followed by ‘of’, but only one means to ‘increase the likelihood of something happening’. ‘Forecasts’ cannot be ‘increased’.
8 B: only this one both collocates with ‘have’ and is followed by the preposition ‘on’.
9 C: this is the only one that is followed directly by the ‘to’ infinitive.
Use of English — chọn cấp độ
| Chuyên mục | Số đề |
|---|---|
| Use of English A1 | 12 |
| Use of English A2 | 20 |
| Use of English B1 | 20 |
| Use of English B2 | 72 |