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Choose the best answer for each question. The test includes grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening. If you do not know an answer, you can skip it and continue. The writing must contain at least 60 words to receive points. Your writing is checked instantly by AI after submission.

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Section

Grammar

01 1 pikë

He ___ very happy last night.

02 0.5 pikë

This is my brother. ___ name is Igor.

03 1 pikë

She resents ___ what to do by people with far less experience.

04 0.5 pikë

They ___ to London last year.

05 0.5 pikë

A: Do you like green tea? B: Yes, I ___.

06 1 pikë

My sister enjoys ___ in the sea in summer.

07 1 pikë

If I ___ in your position, I'd apologise before things get worse.

08 1 pikë

That is ___ orange.

09 1 pikë

___ by the unexpected news, she sat down without saying a word.

10 1 pikë

By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___.

Section

Vocabulary

11 1 pikë

There has been a significant ___ in air quality since the factory closed.

12 0.5 pikë

Breakfast, lunch and ___.

13 1 pikë

My father's mother is my ___.

14 1 pikë

My shoes are new but my bag is ___.

15 1 pikë

Select the TWO words that are jobs.

16 0.5 pikë

It's cold outside — put on your ___.

17 0.5 pikë

I can't walk very well because my ___ hurts.

18 0.5 pikë

It is white and cold, and it falls in winter: ___.

19 0.5 pikë

My best friend is very ___ — she always arrives on time and keeps her promises.

20 1 pikë

They ___ a small business selling handmade furniture, and it's doing well.

Section

Reading

21 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS — RIVERSIDE SPORTS CENTRE

From 1 October, the centre will introduce several changes following the survey completed by more than 400 members this summer. The swimming pool will open an hour earlier on weekdays, at 6 a.m., to serve members who train before work. However, it will close at 8 p.m. instead of 10 p.m., as evening attendance has fallen sharply over the past two years.

The survey also showed strong demand for family activities. As a result, the small gym on the first floor will be converted into a children's play area, and family membership will be reduced by 15 per cent. Members who currently use the first-floor gym should note that all equipment will be moved to the main hall, which will be extended in November. During the building work, which is expected to last three weeks, the main hall will remain open, although some classes may be moved to different rooms or times. Members will receive an updated timetable by email in late September. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank members for their patience while we improve our facilities.

Question: What can members expect during the building work?

22 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

Every spring, thousands of students prepare for exams by doing exactly the wrong thing: staying up late with their books. A study carried out at a university in the Netherlands followed 380 first-year students through their end-of-year exams. The researchers compared students' sleep diaries with their results, and the pattern was striking. Students who slept at least seven hours on the nights before their exams scored, on average, 11 per cent higher than those who slept five hours or fewer — a difference large enough to turn a fail into a comfortable pass.

What surprised the researchers most was that extra studying could not make up for lost sleep. Students who reported studying past midnight before an exam performed worse than students who had studied the same total number of hours but stopped earlier, even when the late-night group had covered more material. The explanation, the researchers suggest, lies in how the brain stores information: memories formed during the day are strengthened and organised during deep sleep, so cutting sleep short interrupts the very process that revision depends on.

The team is careful to point out that their study shows a strong link rather than definite proof, since students who sleep well may differ in other ways — they may be less anxious, for example, or simply better organised.

Question: What was the main finding of the study?

23 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

The letter had been in the drawer for nineteen years, and Ruth had promised herself she would never open it. Her mother's handwriting on the envelope — 'For Ruth, when she is ready' — had once seemed a kindness. Lately it felt like a sentence hanging over her.

She made tea she did not drink and stood at the window while it went cold. Below in the courtyard, her neighbour was teaching his small daughter to ride a bicycle, running bent over behind her, letting go and pretending he hadn't. Ruth watched the child wobble, steady, and sail on alone, triumphant, not yet aware she was unsupported. Something in her chest loosened as she watched.

When she finally sat down and slid her thumb under the seal, she noticed her hands were steady. That surprised her. For years she had imagined this moment accompanied by some dramatic weather of feeling — grief, or anger, or the particular guilt of the daughter who had not visited enough. Instead there was only a quiet, level attention, as though she were about to hear her mother speak calmly after a long silence, and it occurred to her that this — not courage, not forgiveness — might be what 'ready' had meant all along.

Question: What does Ruth conclude about the word 'ready'?

24 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

NOTICE FOR ALL STUDENTS

The school library will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week because workers are painting the walls. You can return your books at the office next to the gym. The library will open again on Monday at 8 a.m. Remember: next week we start our Book Month! Every student who reads three books in March will get a free cinema ticket. Ask Ms Petrova for the list of books.

Question: Where can students return their books?

25 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

Nikola has a small dog called Rex. Rex is two years old. Every morning, Nikola gives him food and water. In the evening, they go for a walk by the river. Rex loves to run and play with a red ball.

Question: What does Nikola do every morning?

26 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

HAVE YOU SEEN BOBI?

Our small white dog Bobi ran away from our garden on Tuesday afternoon. He is three years old and very friendly. He has short white hair, brown ears and a red collar with his name on it. He loves children and is not dangerous. We last saw him near the park on Partizanska Street. If you find him, please call Igor on 071-234-567. There is a reward of 1,000 denars. Our children miss him very much!

Question: When did Bobi run away?

27 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

We have English lessons on Monday and Thursday.

Question: How many English lessons are there in a week?

28 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

For thirty-one years, Tomas Andersson kept the light burning on Svartholm, a bare rock two hours by boat from the Swedish coast. He was, by the end, the country's last resident lighthouse keeper, and when automation finally made his job unnecessary in 1994, he did something nobody expected: he asked to stay. The authorities, puzzled but sympathetic, let him remain as an unpaid caretaker, and he lived on the island alone until his death in 2011.

His journals, published last year, have become an unlikely bestseller. They record a life ruled by weather and routine — cleaning the lens, measuring the wind, salting fish for winter — but what has captured readers is Andersson's refusal to describe his life as lonely. "People confuse being alone with being abandoned," he wrote in 1998. "I have the sea's company, which is never twice the same, and I know every stone of this island the way other men know their children's faces."

His editor, Karin Lindqvist, believes the journals appeal to readers precisely because their world has disappeared. "We check our phones two hundred times a day and call it staying connected," she says. "Tomas watched one horizon for thirty years and missed nothing. Readers sense he possessed something we have lost, even if they cannot name it."

Question: How did Andersson view solitude, according to his journals?

29 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

When the software company where Elena Marsh worked announced in 2021 that its employees could work from anywhere permanently, she did what tens of thousands of others have since done: she left the city. She sold her one-bedroom flat, bought a house with a garden in a town of 4,000 people, and cut her commute from ninety minutes to nine seconds.

Towns like hers have been transformed by this quiet migration. The population of Alderton has grown by 12 per cent in four years, the primary school has a waiting list for the first time in living memory, and the high street — half-empty in 2019 — now supports two cafés, a bookshop and a co-working space. House prices, inevitably, have followed: up 40 per cent since 2020, to the dismay of local families whose wages have not moved at anything like the same rate. "The newcomers bring money and energy," says one long-term resident, "but my daughter, who was born here, cannot afford a house here. That cannot be right."

Economists are divided over whether the shift will last. Some point out that several large employers have already begun calling staff back to the office three days a week, which puts distant towns out of reach. Others argue the change has passed the point of no return: once a company has hired employees it has never met, in cities it has no office in, geography stops being a rule and becomes a preference.

Question: What tension does the long-term resident describe?

30 1 pikë

Read the text and answer the question.

The image is seductive: gleaming towers in the middle of the city, growing lettuce and strawberries on twenty floors, using no soil and a fraction of the water demanded by conventional farming. Vertical farms, their supporters claim, could feed the world's growing cities while returning farmland to nature. Investors have poured billions into the industry over the past decade. So why have several of its biggest names gone bankrupt?

The answer, unglamorously, is electricity. Plants outdoors receive sunlight free of charge; plants indoors must be lit, and lighting twenty floors of crops consumes enormous amounts of power. When energy prices surged in 2022, the economics of many vertical farms collapsed overnight. It is telling that the crops the industry grows profitably — herbs, salad leaves, berries — are those that are light, perishable and expensive. Nobody grows wheat in a tower, because a loaf of vertical-farm bread would cost roughly twenty times the ordinary price.

This does not mean the technology is worthless. In countries that import most of their vegetables, or in regions where drought makes ordinary farming precarious, the ability to grow food reliably indoors may justify the cost. But as a solution to global hunger, the vertical farm remains what it has always been: an answer to a question, though not to the question its promoters like to cite.

Question: Why does the writer mention bread?

Section

Listening

31 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. What colour is the cat?

Listen carefully
32 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. What do the students need to bring?

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33 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. Where is Maria from?

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34 0.5 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. How much does the woman pay?

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35 0.5 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. When will they meet?

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36 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. How old is Maria?

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37 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. When is David's party?

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38 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. What time does the flight to Rome leave?

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39 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. Why does the woman order apple juice?

Listen carefully
40 1 pikë

Listen to the recording and answer the question. Why should visitors sign up early for the guided tour?

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Writing task

Write about 100 to 150 words comparing learning online with learning in a classroom. Mention one advantage and one disadvantage of each.

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Write a clear, connected text in English. Use complete sentences and pay attention to grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, and organization.

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Maximum value: 5 points Recommended up to 180 words
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