• Exam: PET-O
  • Course:
    READING
  • Part 5, Exam 1

Instructions

For questions 1 - 10, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) 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 60% or over.

The recommended time for this exam is 10 minutes or under.

Example:

  • (0) :
  • A) OPPORTUNITY
  • B) occasion
  • C) reason
  • D) cause

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STUDYING ABROAD

Student exchange programmes are a fantastic way to give students the (0) to live somewhere (1) for a school year, which helps them learn (2) the customs and the way of life of other people. For this reason increasingly large numbers of young people are (3) the advantage of living in (4) country and are deciding to study abroad. They will eat new food, experience new traditions and learn the way people (5) own age live from day to day. (6) they live abroad, they stay with carefully chosen host families, attend a (7) school, and (8) student on the exchange programme has (9) who directly supports them the whole time they are abroad. Students (10) be aged between 15 and 18 years and be good at a foreign language to qualify as an exchange student.

(0) A) cause B) opportunity C) occasion D) reason
(1) A) else B) well C) too D) also
(2) A) for B) about C) of D) by
(3) A) recommending B) recognising C) regarding D) reviewing
(4) A) separate B) another C) different D) new
(5) A) its B) her C) their D) our
(6) A) Whether B) Although C) However D) While
(7) A) home B) local C) near D) close
(8) A) many B) every C) all D) both
(9) A) anybody B) everyone C) anyone D) somebody
(10) A) must B) ought C) have D) need

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