• Exam: KET-O
  • Course:
    READING AND WRITING
  • Part 5, Exam 4

Instructions

For questions 1 - 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, or C) best fits each gap.
Choose the correct answer, drag it and drop it, or type the corresponding letter into the corresponding box.

The pass mark for this exam is 70% or over.

The recommended time for this exam is 6 minutes or under.

Example:

  • (1) :
  • A) AT
  • B) FOR
  • C) ON

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The Farmers 1

Farming is the cultivation of animals and plants to sustain human life, and its history dates back thousands of years. Before farming started, people used to go to the forest (1) plants or fruit they could eat, which meant they (2) moving all the time to find food. Then, in an area around modern day Syria, about 12,000 years ago, people (3) to grow food, and this made (4) possible for people to stay in (5) place, rather than having to wander in search of food. The villages where people started living got bigger, and (6) the farmers could grow food for many people, others started doing other things. Farming at that time was very dependent on the weather, and when it was bad, there was not (7) food for people to eat. Nowadays, more food (8) be grown and it travels great distances to the people who eat it.

(1) A) at B) for C) on
(2) A) was B) been C) were
(3) A) began B) begin C) begun
(4) A) this B) it C) them
(5) A) one B) the C) other
(6) A) but B) or C) because
(7) A) enough B) all C) many
(8) A) need B) can C) have

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